Ámos - View, c 1938 - A painting of a man standing in front of a mirror

In the early 1930s he studied at the School of Fine Arts. His teacher was Dula Rudnai. He married the artist Margit Anna. In 1936 he was elected a member of the New Artists' Society. He lived and worked in Szentendre during the summer. In 1937 he visited Paris, where he met Marc Chagall. In 1940, during World War II, he was sent to a labour camp in Vojvodina and in 1944 to the Ordruf concentration camp in Thuringia, where he died at the age of 37 (exact date of death unknown). From the mid-1930s his work was influenced by Chagall. In the 1940s he painted a series of pictures about the horrors of war: "Dark Times", "Avoidance", "War". The Museum of Imre Amos and Margit Anna was established in Szentendre, where some of their paintings are exhibited.