From 1904 to1905 he was trained at Tivadar Zemplényi's Pattern Drawing School in Budapest, then attended the Julian Academy in Paris. He painted Endre Ady's portrait, worked in Nagybánya and Felsôbánya in the twenties, .nally settling down in Nagyvárad (Oradea) where he ran an art school.
Bibliography: BÖLÖNI, Sándor: Tibor Ernô. Arckép dokumentumok tükrében, I., Képzôművészeti írások, Bukarest, 1984.