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The Great-Mustached Man by György Rauscher (1917) - private collection

György Rauscher, Nagybajuszú (The Great-Mustached Man), 1917. Public domain.

Nagybajuszú (The Great-Mustached Man)

Nagybajuszú (The Great-Mustached Man) is a 1917 oil by György Rauscher, the earliest dated work in the oeuvre, made when the painter was fifteen.

The picture is a bust-length portrait of a man with a large reddish handlebar moustache, in a black wide-brimmed hat and a dark coat, his ruddy face seen in three-quarter view against a green-blue ground. The paint is vigorous and direct, and it is signed and dated at the upper right, 1917.

It belongs to the early works that predate both the New Objectivity turn and the 1935 estate catalogue (see /biography/origins).

Record

  • Archive ID: GR-0029
  • Titles: Nagybajuszú (Hungarian); The Great-Mustached Man (English)
  • Year: 1917
  • Medium: oil painting on canvas
  • Dimensions: 47 × 35 cm
  • Signature: upper right, Rauscher 1917
  • Attribution: confirmed
  • Documentation basis: primary, with image
  • Location: private collection (offered at auction, Párisi Galéria, 2013)
  • Period: early, pre-1922
  • Literature: /bibliography#szamado-2019

Cite this record

GR-0029, Nagybajuszú (The Great-Mustached Man, 1917). The György Rauscher Archive, https://gyorgyrauscher.com/works/nagybajuszu-1917 (last reviewed 2026-06-03).

BibTeX
@misc{GR-0029,
  title        = {The Great-Mustached Man},
  author       = {{The György Rauscher Archive}},
  year         = {1917},
  howpublished = {\url{https://gyorgyrauscher.com/works/nagybajuszu-1917}},
  note         = {Archive ID GR-0029. Last reviewed Wed Jun 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time).}
}

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