Greguss, Gizella (1862 - 1955)
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After graduating from the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts, she worked as an art teacher at the School
of Artistic Drawing in Budapest. Later she became the manager of the women’s workshop at the
Budapest Technical Drawing School, where she worked for twenty-two years, until her retirement.
She was a member of the Hungarian Fine Arts Society and of the Kunstgewerbe Verein. She invented
’’velour nacre”, a technique for dyeing velvet, for which she obtained a world patent in 1901. Her
burnt velvet compositions were awarded a silver medal in Turin, gold medals in St. Louis and Milan,
honorary diplomas and prizes in St Petersburg, Paris, Vienna, Szeged and Pécs. Besides her velvet
’’pictures”, she also designed and executed embroideries, lacework, goldsmith’s work and glass.
