Grape Harvest (1923 körül)

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.

The handyman Sándor Muhits taught organic stylization, the reproduction of the spatiality and colour values of forms with the simplest possible means, plane-like vision in patches and space, and ornamental drawing as early as 1910. He was also interested in folk art. The Harvest is a beautiful example of this, presumably as a design for a carpet. The picture shows a grape harvest, with a young girl in folk costume in the centre, with her typical pleated skirt and a basket on her head. Surrounding her are women at work, with a man drinking must in the background. Muhits is obviously condensing and stylising, since the grapes are not in ceremonial dress or picked from the field, but rather frame the main figure. Muhits combines the Art Nouveau motif with a Hungarian theme, which can be compared to the works of Sándor Nagy, Béla Büky and Anna Lesznai.