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Couple (The Yellow Iris) by György Rauscher

György Rauscher, Emberpár (A sárga írisz / Couple, The Yellow Iris), 1920s. Courtesy Kieselbach / private collection.

Emberpár (Couple), The Yellow Iris

Emberpár (Couple), also titled A sárga írisz (The Yellow Iris), is an oil of the 1920s by György Rauscher.

A man and a woman sit outdoors among dense greenery: the woman at the left in a white dress, red-haired, with large pale eyes and white stockings; the man at the right gaunt, in a black suit over a red jersey. A yellow iris grows at the lower left, giving the work its second title. The faces are pale and wide-eyed, in the unsettling register of his New Objectivity. It is signed at the upper left.

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Record

  • Archive ID: GR-0010
  • Titles: Emberpár (A sárga írisz) (Hungarian); Couple (The Yellow Iris) (English)
  • Year: 1920s
  • Medium: oil painting on canvas
  • Dimensions: 109.5 × 84 cm
  • Signature: upper left, Rauscher Gy.
  • Attribution: confirmed
  • Documentation basis: primary, with image
  • Location: private collection (Kieselbach, 2015)
  • Period: Hungarian years, 1922-1928
  • Literature: /bibliography#szamado-2019; /bibliography#kieselbach-artist

Cite this record

GR-0010, Emberpár (Couple, The Yellow Iris). The György Rauscher Archive, https://gyorgyrauscher.com/works/emberpar (last reviewed 2026-06-03).

BibTeX
@misc{GR-0010,
  title        = {Couple (The Yellow Iris)},
  author       = {{The György Rauscher Archive}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://gyorgyrauscher.com/works/emberpar}},
  note         = {Archive ID GR-0010. Last reviewed Wed Jun 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time).}
}

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