Petrovic Elek

* Deregnyő, August 10, 1873 – † Budapest, July 20, 1945 / art historian, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ; ; He studied law at the University of Budapest, where he obtained a degree in political science in 1896. Between 1896 and 1914 he worked in various positions in the Ministry of the Interior. Between 1914 and 1935 he was the director and then director general of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. He reorganized the institution and founded the museum's Egyptian collection and archive. As an art historian, he primarily dealt with Hungarian art of the 19th and 20th centuries. He played an important role in the recognition of Károly Ferenczy and the Nagybánya school. Between 1918 and 1935 he edited the Yearbooks of the National Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a corresponding member in 1924 and a full member in 1941. ; ; His main works: ; Newer acquisitions of the Museum of Fine Arts, 1918, ; Károly Ferenczy, 1923, ; Our collections of fine arts (Hungary from Verecké to the present day.), 1930, ; Notes on the history of our art in the first half of the 19th century, 1934, ; Hungarian masterpieces, 1936, ; László Mattyasovszky-Zsolnay, 1936, ; Life and art, 1937, ; Pál Szinyei Merse, 1941, ; The development of modern painting (In: Hungarian Cultural History V.), 1942, Rippl-Rónai, 1942.