Hugo Scheiber was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1873 but went to live in Vienna with his family at an early age, moving back to Budapest in 1890.  Starting in 1898 he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Budapest, attending evening classes, while working during the day to support his family and finished his studies in 1990.   A post-impressionistic plein air landscape period followed, however from the 1910′s he showed an early interest in Futurism and German Expressionism. He met Filippo Tomasso Marinetti in 1915 and they became personal friends.