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Miksa Róth
Hungarian mosaicist and stained glass artist
Miksa Róth (26 December 1865 – 14 June 1944) was a Hungarian mosaicist and stained glass artist responsible for making mosaic and stained glass prominent art forms in Hungarian art.[1][2] In part, Róth was inspired by the work of Pre-Raphaelite artists Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris.[2]
Róth apprenticed at his father, Zsigmond Róth's leaded stained glass studio.[3] Starting a business in 1885, he would make commissions for a number of buildings, largely in Budapest, including the Hungarian Parliament Building and the Buda Castle.[1] Róth also received a number of commissions outside the country as well, for example the National Theatre of Mexico.[1]
Róth started his first workshop in 1885, but he didn't become famous until ten years later when the Hungarian Millennial Exhibition took place in 1896. During that time, he was given the important task of creating stained-glass artworks for the Parliament building. The talent for working with glass was something Róth inherited from his family, who had been skilled in this art for many generations.
The young boy worked as an apprentice in his father's workshop, where he learned how to stain glass and make tempered glass. The first buildings he worked on were the Bobula Palace on Andrássy út and the Hall of Industry for the Millennial Exhibition. Unfortunately, these buildings were later destroyed during World War II.[4]
