A passion for art.

József Perlaki crafted his first stained glass window before he was 20.

Aged 21, he graduated as a glass painter at the National Professional Institute, and immediately set off on restoring Hungary’s art heritage. Among many projects, he worked on the repair and restoration of stained glass windows in Budapest’s Parliament, State Ballet and the Storno House palace in Sopron, in the west of the country.

In 1985 he opened his independent atelier, initially based in Bakonyszentkirály, a picturesque village in the Bakony Hills in western Hungary. The atelier has since moved to Veszprém, near lake Balaton.

Selected works - Stained glass

  • Restoration of the Gara Chapel / St Stephen’s Chapel of the Church of Our Lady of Buda Castle, more commonly known as Mátyás-templom, Budapest, Hungary.

  • Restoration of the stained-glass windows of the Hungarian National Parliament, Budapest, Hungary.

  • Church of St. John of Nepomuk, Csanádpalota, Hungary.

  • Church of St. John the Apostle in Salomvár, Hungary

  • Church of St. Margaret of Antioch in Bősi, Hungary

  • Church of Our Lady of Nagyszénás, Hungary

  • Church of the Holy Virgin Mary in Kapuvár, Hungary

  • Church of of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Árpádhalom, Hungary

Selected works - Mosaic