Műemlékvédelem folyóirat (Budapest, 1990)

monuments - in close unity with the rather sensitive manner of shaping a builtup environment - only if the social transformation now taking place in this country brings to the surface and emphasises the actual mental, professional and moral values...............................................................65 András Román pays homage in his writing, supported with quotations, to the memory of István Möller whose renovation of the Zsámbék church ruins is a creation in accordance with the standards our times, with the monument-protestive principles laid down in the Carta of Venice. This means that Möller avoided any over-construction, even the realisation of his own inventiveness, and respected greaty the original fragments. Although probably impelled by the lack of funds felt already at that time, he became with his attitude the early forerunner of the modern methods in the protection of monuments......................................................72 Géza Entz analyses István Möller’s renovation of Zsámbék and examines certain groups of questions more intensively. One of these is whether some methods of the Möllerian work (completion with bricks) were provisional ones as shown by recent archival researches. The author is of the opinion that this completion, intended to be provisional, is but one factor in Möller’s methodics, in this way of thinking that foreshadows progress, and could become exemplary even so. Another question is why Möller did not employ his principles consistently further on. This was so, says the author, because these later works are no longer such problematic ruins, buta are relics put to use in a good condition. István Möller besed designing and execution on deep studies conducted from the beginning of our century. 1. Engraving of Rohbock. 2. Completion of the tower broad-stones. 3. István Möller with his disciples. 4. The church seen from the village. 5. Remains of the nave. 6. The side-aisle (1961). 7. Details of the side-aisle. 8. Clearly visible details of restoration. 9. The side-apse completed. ... 74 Miklós Horler , in his analysis written for tehe 25th anniversary of the Carta of Venice, discusses the course of proceedings embedded in a broader framework. This important document meant at the same time the closing of a period which reflected in connection with ancient monuments the postwar sentimental-conscious situation, an important role was played in all this by the consciousness of identity and by romaniticism, by the demand for beauty arising from ruins, as veil as by the claim for use. Hungarian monument protection could proudly show its early a chievements which

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