Her watercolors represent the highest achievement of Croatian akvarelnog painting in the 19th and early 20th century. Deaf-mute from birth, primary and secondary school education in the Department of deaf children in Vienna. In painting it is occasionally indicated Cikos Bela - a session, but in fact it was self-taught. Shortly before the mental disorder, and the glory of the painted his famous "Self Portrait", and then her works have become more and more an expression of expression, a mixture of visual and fantastic, and it was in the duševoj disease 1902nd began to paint a completely hallucinatory.