The György Rauscher Archive

Móricz Zsigmond

Móricz Zsigmond (1879 to 1942) was the leading realist novelist of modern Hungarian literature, a chronicler of village and provincial life whose work reshaped Hungarian prose fiction. Számadó records him among György Rauscher’s sitters (/bibliography#szamado-2019, pp. 17-33).

Who he was

Móricz wrote novels and stories of unsparing social realism, among them Sárarany, Az Isten háta mögött, and the Erdély trilogy, and was, with Babits, a central figure of the Nyugat circle. His fiction gave the Hungarian peasantry and provincial gentry a place at the centre of the national literature.

The connection to Rauscher

Móricz belongs to the group of writers and intellectuals Rauscher portrayed in his Hungarian years (see /biography/hungarian-years), and is named among the sitters in Számadó’s survey.

The specific portrait has not yet been identified in the sources available to the archive; contributions are welcome through /corrections.

Cite this record

Móricz Zsigmond. The György Rauscher Archive. https://gyorgyrauscher.com/sitters/moricz-zsigmond (last reviewed Wed Jun 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)).

BibTeX
@misc{m-ricz-zsigmond,
  title        = {Móricz Zsigmond},
  author       = {{The György Rauscher Archive}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://gyorgyrauscher.com/sitters/moricz-zsigmond}},
  note         = {Last reviewed Wed Jun 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time).}
}