Sky with white birds (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. The Blue Sky with White Birds was originally created as an embroidery design. With the seemingly irregular movement of the group of birds, and the juxtaposition of light blues and pinks, Muhits is able to give the painting a sense of depth. The colouring, the and the use of Van Gogh's Almond Blossom ( 1890) in which the painter s branches are shown with only the garish blue sky visible.