Júlia Báthory

Júlia Báthory (December 31, 1901 – May 3, 2000) was a Hungarian glass designer.

In the course of her graphic studies she became fascinated by glasswork, and in 1929 she started her career as an independent glass-designer in Dessau. The Bauhaus School was located in Dessau at this time and was an influence on Báthory, who attended lectures at the school. into an aristocratic family. She pursued her high school studies in Debrecen and Budapest. While there, she was a student of Adelbert Niemeyer, a painter and porcelain designer, and a family relative of the well known Brazilian architect, Oscar Niemeyer. She also took lectures from local painter Max Müller (not related to the orientalist). Her fellow student was Margit Kovács, Báthory decided to recreate pieces from her collection of work that were lost or destroyed.

In 1991, she received the Golden Wreath-ornamented Star-order of the Hungarian Republic, and became full member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Art in the Fine Arts Department. Her life work was exhibited in the Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts in 1992. She died in Pécsvárad at the age of 98 in 2000. She was bestowed the Hungarian Heritage Award posthumously later that year.

Since then, András Szilágyi, her stepson, and Júlia Kovács, her daughter-in-law, are running a permanent museum and continues to run Báthory's studio; La Girouette, which reproduces these works and carries out Báthory's designs. Since September 2000, the Báthory Júlia glass-collection is opened to the public in Dömsöd.