Faun and Nymph (1900 körül)

Miksa Róth is the greatest figure in Hungarian glass window art. He founded his glass painting institute in 1884. The turning point in his career was the discovery of Tiffany glass, whose peculiarity is that the composition is determined by the different surface parts of the material itself (smooth, etched, grained, wavy). Often the marble veining of the glass reveals the fibres and veins of the floral motifs depicted. The Tiffany method was first used by Miksa Róth in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1898, he made the Swan glass window of the Hungarian Society of Applied Arts, which was exhibited at the Christmas exhibition of the Hungarian Society of Applied Arts, from Tiffany glass. He incorporated many of the motifs of Art Nouveau symbolism into his glass windows, which were constructed from landscape, swan or merely floral motifs. The geometric tendency and the incorporation of figures referring to ancient mythology make his early art akin to Austrian and German Art Nouveau glass window art, as can be seen in his Faun and Nymph.