Egy rejtőzködő kollekció. Csetényi József festménygyűjteménye

József Csetényi (1875–1956) was a student of humanities at the Royal Hungarian University of Sciences in Budapest, later he became a journalist, working for several newspapers. He published several books on economics and politics and was a member of the Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Table Society from the late 1920s. In addition to his public activities, he was also an important art collector, although not many people knew it at the time. There is little information about what he bought and where. His collection consisted mainly of European Renaissance and Baroque paintings. Archival interior photographs show the works in the villa of Csetényi and his wife Erzsébet Frisch in Buda (1935), but not everything is included, and the collection may have been enlarged later. In 1944, the Government Commission on Jewish Matters confiscated some of the collection and transferred it to the Museum of Fine Arts. After the war, the family regained ownership, but the entire collection was eventually dispersed (important works were transferred to the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts). In addition to archival photographs, it is mainly archival sources that allow the reconstruction of the former collection.