Apám (My Father)
Apám (My Father) is a 1926 oil painting by György Rauscher, held at the Komáromi Klapka György Múzeum. It portrays the painter’s father, Dr. Rauscher Zsigmond, a physician of Komárom, and is number 2 in the 1935 estate catalogue.
The painting shows an older man seated almost three-quarter length in a pale cream suit with a dark bow tie, his white hair and full white moustache catching the light against a dark, plain ground. He sits beside a green-topped table holding a small amber bottle, folded white papers, and a dish; his hands rest on his thighs and he looks off to one side.
The handling is broad and tonal, warmer and more traditional than the hard New Objectivity manner Rauscher was developing in the same years (see /biography/hungarian-years). It is a domestic portrait of the man whose move to Komárom in 1903 had given the family its home there (see /holocaust-memorial, where Dr. Rauscher Zsigmond is remembered).
Record
- Archive ID: GR-0004
- Titles: Apám (Hungarian); My Father (English)
- Year: 1926
- 1935 catalogue number: 2
- Medium: oil painting
- Subject: the painter’s father, Dr. Rauscher Zsigmond
- Attribution: confirmed
- Documentation basis: primary, with image
- Location: Klapka György Múzeum, Komárom (see
/klapka-muzeum) - Period: Hungarian years, 1922-1928
- Exhibitions: 1935 Nemzeti Szalon estate exhibition, no. 2
- Literature:
/bibliography#szamado-2019
Cite this record
GR-0004, Apám (My Father, 1926), Klapka György Múzeum. The György Rauscher Archive, https://gyorgyrauscher.com/works/apam-1926 (last reviewed 2026-06-03).
