Muhits, Sándor (1882 - 1956)

Painter, applied artist and lecturer at the College of Applied Arts. Sándor Muhits graduated from the Budapest College of Applied Arts, and taught there between 1909 and 1914. Between 1921 and 1925, he was the head of the ceramics and textile workshop of the Miskolc Art Colony, where he also taught, and then became a teacher in the National Hungarian Royal College of Applied Arts, where from 1935 until his retirement in 1946 he led the Department of Textiles. He was a member of the KÉVE society of artists. He was a highly versatile artist, and his oeuvre includes graphics works, book illustrations, frescoes and glass art. He designed the murals of the chancel of the Votive Church in Szeged and the stained glass windows for the Mirror Hall of the Palace of Culture in Marosvásárhely (Târgu Mureş, Romania). He died in Budapest in 1956.