Pictorul Ferenczy József (1866–1925) și colecționarii de artă din Timișoara / The painter Ferenczy József (1866–1925) and the art collectors in Timișoara
Jan. 1, 2017
Keywords:
pictorul Ferenczy József
colecționari de artă
Ervin Salló
Pogány Mihály și László
familia dr. Moritz și Bianka Schönberger
poetul Endre Károly
Else Kornis
medicul Eugen Schuber
Olga Suits
painter Ferenczy József
art collections
Pogány Mihály and László
the family of dr. Moritz and Bianka Schönberger
poet Endre Károly
physician Eugen Schuber
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Abstract
The Art Museum of Timişoara is the institution that has preserved the memory of collectors from the historical
Banat, a region from the today western Romania, by works of art acquired or donated when the Historical and
Archaeological Society of Banat was founded in 1872 in the city of Timişoara, then one of the cities within the
Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The current study deals with the art collectors in Timişoara during the XXth century and their interest for the
oeuvre of the painter Ferenczy József (1866–1925), who made studies in Budapest and Paris at the Julian Academy.
From 1901 the painter has settled down in Timișoara, becoming of one the most requested portraitist within the
city. The article presents the Museum of Banat’s acquisitions policy between the 1950s and the 1960s, during the
period of dissolution of the collections assembled between the two World Wars and the valorisation of the oeuvre
of the painter Ferenczy József through an exihibition from the year 1973 with the art works from the collections
of the poets Endre Károly and Kuban Endre, the Mühle family, the physician Eugen Schuber, and Olga Suits, the
muse of the painter Ștefan Szönyi.
