Levente Erdeös

To the left, Levente Erdeös: Foto: Peter de Ru

Director 1975-1995
Levente Erdeös, an architect born in 1935, focused on practical matters. The museum was renovated, as was the garden. The artificial brook begun by Josef Oliv was finished.

On his initiative the first damage inventory was carried out in 1978. This laid the foundation for a preservation plan. Two years later there was a devastating earthquake, which damaged the villa’s frame. Two Roman antiquities, a bust of Tiberius and a head of Commodus, were stolen. In 1985 an internal video network was installed for surveillance.

In 1991 the villa’s antique building remnants were restored. In the cubiculum (the little bedroom) unknown details of the Roman fresco were revealed.

The same year saw the building of the Olivetum, an exhibition locale designed by the director. The pavilion incorporated the walls in the terrace that Oliv had built.

(From Levente Erdeös, Boken om Axel Munthes San Michele, hundra år ur Capris historia, 1998, Carlsson Bokförlag)