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The Idiot by György Rauscher

György Rauscher, Idióta (The Idiot). Public domain.

Idióta (The Idiot)

Idióta (The Idiot) is an oil painting by György Rauscher, number 48 in the 1935 estate catalogue. It is one of his New Objectivity portraits of people on the margins of society, where the sitter’s inner life matters more than outward likeness.

The painting shows a gaunt young man at three-quarter length in a dark suit and tie with a pale collar, standing against a muted green-grey ground and resting against a ledge at the lower right. The arms are folded across the body, the fingers long and tapering; the head is narrow and the large eyes fixed in a vacant gaze. It is built in the firm outlines and shallow, stage-like space of Rauscher’s New Objectivity.

The subject places it alongside the Talmudista and the beggar and outsider studies of the same years (see /biography/hungarian-years).

Record

  • Archive ID: GR-0020
  • Titles: Idióta (Hungarian); The Idiot (English)
  • Year: undated
  • 1935 catalogue number: 48
  • Medium: oil painting
  • Attribution: confirmed
  • Documentation basis: primary, with image
  • Location: private collection
  • Period: Hungarian years, 1922-1928
  • Exhibitions: 1935 Nemzeti Szalon estate exhibition, no. 48
  • Literature: /bibliography#szamado-2019

Cite this record

GR-0020, Idióta (The Idiot), The György Rauscher Archive, https://gyorgyrauscher.com/works/idiota (last reviewed 2026-06-03).

BibTeX
@misc{GR-0020,
  title        = {The Idiot},
  author       = {{The György Rauscher Archive}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://gyorgyrauscher.com/works/idiota}},
  note         = {Archive ID GR-0020. Last reviewed Wed Jun 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time).}
}

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