SCRISORILE MAGHIARE ÎN CORESPONDENŢA LUI CORIOLAN PETRANU
HUNGARIAN LETTERS IN CORIOLAN PETRANU’S CORRESPONDENCE

Summary/Abstract: Hungarian Letters in Coriolan Petranu’s Correspondence. This paper presents a series of unpublished material from the letters of Coriolan Petranu (1893-1945), exegete of the Romanian vernacular architecture from Transylvania, the first professor of the University of Cluj (1920-1945) and the founder of the Art History Seminar of this university. His activity as a professor, scholar, his preoccupation with museums and heritage within the Commission for Historic Monuments in Romania, and his presence at International Congresses of Aesthetics and Art History have been completed by his correspondence with important scholars ranging from the United States of America in the west to the Soviet Union in the east, to the Baltic states in the north and Bulgaria and Yugoslavia in the south. The present study presents the correspondence with noted figures of Hungarian cultural environment, such as the ethnographer Viski Károly, the art historian Takács Zoltán (1880-1964), the director of the East-Asian Art Museum “Hopp Ferenc” in Budapest, dr. Gyulai Farkas, Nádor Fettich (?), curator of the Hungarian National Museum, etc.

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