The Harvesters (1910-es évek)

He was a student at the School of Applied Arts. He went on to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and then in Paris. He travelled in Italy, Germany and France, mainly painting churches. After his return home, he became a teacher at the School of Applied Arts in Budapest, where he taught graphic art. During the First World War he was taken prisoner of war by Russia in 1915. He continued his artistic activity first as the artistic director of the toy factory in Krasnoyarsk and then, after 1917, as the organizer of graphic art schools in Moscow. In 1920 he returned home and between 1921 and 1925 he was the head and teacher of the Miskolc Artists' School. From 1935 he was head of the textile department of the School of Applied Arts. He became known mainly for his illustrations, but he worked and achieved success in almost all applied arts (metal arts, glass painting, textile and tapestry design, furniture making, ceramics). He is an excellent mechanic; his work on textile machinery has been universally recognised.

Muhits taught the reproduction of the spatiality and colour values of shapes using the simplest possible means, plane vision in a blur, vision in space, and ornamental drawing at the School of Applied Arts. This method of abstracting from detail and creating a gradually enriched form is characteristic of Muhits's Art Nouveau and Hungarian-flavoured works. Aratók is designed as an embroidery pattern, Muhits is able to reflect the rhythmic movement of the peasants with ease through the planes, directions, line and use of colour. There is not a single straight line in the composition, which is an Art Nouveau characteristic, but Muhits does not detail the forms, but rather builds them up from patches, which is more reminiscent of the influence of the Nabis and Rippl-Rónai, and the garish complementary colours may remind us of Van Gogh's paintings of fields and peasants.