Roth Miksa was the founder and director of the most famous and productive Hungarian Art Nouveau stained-glass and mosaic art workshops at the turn of the 19th – 20th centuries.
In the late 1890s, in the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, he was one of the first to apply a new type of glass invented by LC Tiffany, and also commenced the manufacture of mosaics.
Roth Miksa’s outstanding works can be found in the Parliament building, in the Chapel of the Royal Palace, in the Academy of Music, in the Permanent Art Hall of Hungary in Velence, in the building of the former Gresham Insurance Company, in the Palace of Culture and others.
His mosaics adorn numerous tombstones and mausoleums at the National Cemetery.
He worked together with the most famous architects and artists of the time.
The successful career of the artist was interrupted by the tragic events of the Second World War: as a result of the Jewish law of 1939, the artist closed his workshop. He died at home in 1944.
The exhibition titled "Colored Sunlight" prepared by the Balashi Institute consists of enlarged photographs, sketches showing the multifaceted and multicolored work in the workshop. The pictures represent the main stages and works of the artist’s life. Most of the original works are actually located on buildings that are not accessible to ordinary visitors. For this reason, his "invisible" stained glass windows are also presented in the form of photographs.
The grand opening of the exhibition entitled "Colored Sunshine" will take place on October 30, 2019, at 17.00.
Venue: Transcarpathian Regional Art Museum
Address: Uzhgorod, Zhupanatska Sq., 3
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