Background
He was born in Jenke, Austria-Hungary, (today Jenkovice, Slovakia).
He was born in Jenke, Austria-Hungary, (today Jenkovice, Slovakia).
Margitay studied in Budapest as a student of Gyula Benczúr and in Munich with O.Seitz.
He painted anecdotic, so-called "parlour pictures", in the style of Jules Bastien-Lepage. He also studied in Venice and Florence. Margitay liked to paint scenes of the middle-class in the style of Bastien-Lepage with a naturalistic technique.
His paintings have been exhibited several times in Budapest and also in Vienna.
The Hungarian National are in possession of some of his paintings and his self-portrait is on exhibition at the Hungarian Historical.