It is thanks to the influence of his father, who doubted that one can make a living as an artist, that Schöffer left his hometown to study law at the Faculty of Law of the Royal Hungarian Pázmány Péter University in Budapest. After receiving his doctor title in law, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts without completing this study in Hungary. In 1932 he took part in the Winter Exhibition of the National Salon in Budapest. It was his only public appearance before the war in Hungary.
