Móric Barát was a visual artist born in 1880 in the town of Sáránd in Bihor County. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Budapest in 1907 and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Afterwards he returned to Oradea and participated in the regular exhibitions of the 1930s, exhibiting both pictures from the naturalist and post-impressionist genres. He also exhibited at the Arts Pavilion, Painting and Sculpture in Bucharest in 1929 and 1939.
    He painted oils, watercolours, pastels, urban landscapes, interiors, still life paintings, but he also drew his inspiration from the Jewish holidays. Barát was also a teacher and owner of a bookshop in Oradea. In 1944 he was taken to the Oradea ghetto and onwards to Auschwitz where he was killed.

     In 1992 an exhibition was held at Muzeul Țării Crișurilor in Oradea (Nagyvárad) called "Light and Spirit." It included works by Móric Barát together with those of Leon Alex , Ernő Grünbaum and Ernő Tibor.