Young man (Around 1928)

He began his studies under Adolf Fényes, then from 1924 he was a student of István Réti and István Csók at the Academy of Fine Arts. After Lajos Kassák's return from emigration, he was a core member of the young people's group around his journal "Munka". Because of his artistic experiments and his suspected political stance, he was expelled from college in 1929, before he graduated. 

From 1928 he was an exhibiting artist and participated in exhibitions with the KUT and the UME. In the same year, he and Sándor Trauner exhibited their works at the Mentor bookshop, Schubert mainly watercolours and charcoal drawings. His only solo exhibition was at the Tamás Gallery in 1932. His works from 1928 to 1932 are related to the works of Braque, Picasso and Juan Gris after 1920. He applied to the school of Sándor Bortnyik and in 1929 he shared the prize of 500 pence from Modiano at the advertising exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts.

Ernő Schubert - from the second half of the 1930s, he was a visitor to the Szentendre Artists' Colony; he painted, drew, looked for motifs or just relaxed there, and his friendship and connection with the town remained for the rest of his life. From the 1940s onwards, he painted little, instead working in textiles, furniture design and interior decoration. He was a master and promoter of craftsmanship and workshop work, of the innovative use of thread and wood, of simplicity.