The György Rauscher Archive

The comprehensive online catalogue of the work of György Rauscher, the Hungarian painter (1902-1930).

Rauscher György was a Hungarian painter of the new objectivity (új tárgyiasság / Neue Sachlichkeit) and, in his Berlin years, of art deco society portraiture. (in Western order: Gyorgy Rauscher; German-language sources: Georg Rauscher)

In a working life of barely a decade, cut short by tuberculosis at twenty-eight, he created over 118 artworks, including portraits of the era’s top film actresses Marlene Dietrich, Lilian Harvey, and Elisabeth Bergner, and drew covers for the Berlin society press.

About this archive

The György Rauscher Archive is a digital catalogue raisonné: a documented, citable record of what Rauscher made, where it is now, and how we know. Its core is the 118-work catalogue of the 1935 Nemzeti Szalon estate exhibition, the fullest record of his oeuvre, set against the museum collections, period press, and family sources that survive. The standard of proof behind every entry is on /methodology.

The archive is stewarded by the painter’s family; see /about, and the /faq for the questions visitors ask most.