Dorog

Dorog, a mining town in Esztergom county, was György Rauscher’s birthplace: he was born there on 29 April 1902, while his father was the physician at the coal works (/bibliography#szamado-2019, p. 5). The family left for Komárom the following year, but Rauscher kept the tie, signing some works dorogi Rauscher György (“Rauscher György of Dorog”).

The town, not Kaposvár, is his birthplace; the Pester Lloyd obituary that gave Kaposvár was in error (see /biography/origins).

Dorog and his memory

Dorog has done more than most places to keep Rauscher’s name. The collector Dr. Zsembery Dezső built a Rauscher holding there and edited the 2002 documentary volume on the painter (/bibliography#zsembery-2002).

The town established the Rauscher-díj (the Rauscher Prize) in 2002, on the centenary of his birth, awarded around the Day of Hungarian Culture. In 2012 it held a 110th-birth-anniversary memorial exhibition at the Dorogi Galéria, attended by the painter’s nephew Uri Rauscher (see /exhibitions/2012-dorog-110th).

In 2023 Rauscher was entered in the Komárom-Esztergom county heritage register, a nomination prepared in Dorog.