Jewellery box with panther (1907)

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. 

In the first half of the 20th century, Muhits represented the Gesamkunstwerk concept in his works, which reflect a formulation that started from Art Nouveau, processed the results of Post-Impressionism and then tended towards Pre-Cubism and Art Deco, which is a specific and important path of modern Hungarian art. The simple, supple and light lines and shapes of the Jewellery box with panther from 1907, the exotic animal depiction, testify to the influence of Art Nouveau, while the interesting, elevated shape of the wooden box gives the work a Hungarian flavour and can be compared to the works of Lajos Kozma.