The György Rauscher Archive

1927 Ernst Múzeum Group Exhibition

In September 1927 György Rauscher showed sixteen works at the Ernst Múzeum in Budapest. This was a six-artist group exhibition, not a solo retrospective, though the Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon later called it a gyűjteményes (solo) show (/bibliography#szamado-2019, pp. 11-12; /bibliography#mel).

The exhibition

Invitation to the 1927 Ernst Muzeum group exhibition, naming the six exhibitors including Rauscher Gyorgy
Invitation to the Ernst Múzeum group exhibition, Budapest, opening 11 September 1927.The six exhibitors are named, Rauscher György among them. Reproduced in Számadó 2019.

Rauscher showed alongside Derkovits Gyula, Molnár C. Pál, Simon György János, Cselényi Walleshausen Zsigmond, and the sculptor Kósa Mária.

His sixteen works included Csók (The Kiss), Cigányok (Gypsies), the Szomory Dezső portrait, Apácák (Nuns), Ikrek (Twins), Fürdőzők (Bathers), Merengő Zsidó (the Talmudista), and a self-portrait.

Reception, and the artist’s own words

The Pesti Hírlap of 11 September 1927 found the work “almost ascetically cold” (/bibliography#pesti-hirlap-1927-09-11), while Rabinovszky Márius, in Nyugat, called Rauscher “startlingly decadent … because his suggestive artistic power is very great” (/bibliography#nyugat-1927-05-01).

The catalogue of this exhibition carried Rauscher’s only surviving first-person statement, beginning “Even my most colourful colours are grey.” Both the reception and the statement are set out at /biography/hungarian-years.

Cite this record

1927 Ernst Múzeum Group Exhibition. The György Rauscher Archive. https://gyorgyrauscher.com/exhibitions/1927-ernst-muzeum (last reviewed Wed Jun 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)).

BibTeX
@misc{1927-ernst-m-zeum-group-exhibition,
  title        = {1927 Ernst Múzeum Group Exhibition},
  author       = {{The György Rauscher Archive}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://gyorgyrauscher.com/exhibitions/1927-ernst-muzeum}},
  note         = {Last reviewed Wed Jun 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time).}
}