Nyugat

Nyugat (“West,” 1908 to 1941) was the leading Hungarian literary and critical review of its era, the journal around which modern Hungarian literature organised itself. It twice took notice of György Rauscher.

Rauscher in Nyugat

In its issue of 1 May 1927, the critic Rabinovszky Márius gave Rauscher the period’s sharpest verdict, calling him “startlingly decadent … because his suggestive artistic power is very great” (/bibliography#nyugat-1927-05-01). The full quotation, original and translation, is at /biography/hungarian-years.

In 1931, after his death, Nyugat reproduced his Akt-tanulmány (Nude Study), one of the few individual identifications of the large group of nude studies in the 1935 catalogue (/bibliography#nyugat-1931).

The review’s long-time editor was the poet Babits Mihály, himself among Rauscher’s sitters (see /sitters/babits-mihaly).