Born in Som, Iványi-Grünwald began his artistic studies under Bertalan Székely and Károly Lotz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (1882-86) and continued them at Munich in 1886-87 and at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1887 to 1890.
In 1896, together with Simon Hollósy and his circle (whom he had known at Hollósy's anti-academic painting school in Munich),[REF] Iványi-Grünwald arrived at Nagybánya (from 1918 Baia Mare, Romania) in order to concentrate on plein-air landscape painting; there, he became an important member of the Nagybánya artists' colony.