Samu Börtsök was the student of István Réti on the Colony of Artists in Nagybánya. Later in winter in 1905 he worked in the private school of Károly Ferenczy in Budapest. In 1906 Börtsök took a short study-tour in Par, Munichand Vienna. He had his first exhibition in Műcsarnok in 1907.
Since 1908 he lived permanently in Nagybánya. He was one of the firsts artists who received his own atelier on the colony. Since 1911 he had baan the managing director of the freshly established Association of Artist in Nagybánya.
Through his pictures he intended to paint the "Sunday of the Nature" immortalizing the solemnity of view of the Nature.
He used his orchard looking onto the Liget from Versvíz, the neighbouring fields, hills and the region of Nagybánya bordered by Kereszthegy as his permanent themes.
Börtsök is supposed to be the main of the artists of stack among the "small masters" in Nagybánya due to his frequently used motives of snow-covered stacks. His picture