Alexander Kostka Csontváry - Hungarian artist, who became part of the avant-garde movement in the early twentieth century. Working mainly in Budapest, he became one of the first Hungarian artists who became well known in Europe. 15 December 2006 at auction in the Kieselbach gallery picture Csontváry "Rendezvous" (1902) was bought by an anonymous client for the sum more than one million euros. His works are in the National gallery in Budapest, the Csontváry Museum in pécs, as well as in private collections.

Pictures of Tivadar Csontváry after his death did not remain long in his Studio in Budapest. The heirs of the artist found a use for his creativity, offering huge canvases as car seat covers. Young architect Gideon Gelosi at that time had just graduated and was looking for a Studio. Seeing the announcement of the surrender on the door of a house painter, he looked into the empty housing Csontváry. There was still rolled into a roll pattern, absolutely stunned student. This was the famous "Lone Cedar". In advance of the auction Gerlache managed to buy up all the works and paintings of Csontváry, Packed in boxes, waiting for the young owner of masterpieces will find them a new place. Finally, some of them managed to place in College, Gerlache taught.

After the exhibition in Paris and Brussels in 1949, the paintings were moved to the basement of the National Museum of art, and some of them were returned to the owner only six years later. Later masterpieces kept in the chambers of the National gallery, one of them has long stood in the corridor facing the wall. When in 1970 the government of pécs asked Gerlache to the demonstration paintings on permanent display, he. without hesitation, agreed. The Csontváry Museum in pécs was established on the basis of an agreement concluded for ten years.

The Museum was opened in 1973, to the 120th anniversary since the birth of the artist - in the same hall were exhibited eight paintings and a few sketches of the author. Ten years later, an exhibition of works expanded when the government bought the collection (with the exception of four paintings) Gerlache, and the exhibition was enriched with paintings brought from private collections from Dalmatia, the hortobágy and banská Štiavnica.