The painter and graphic artist Lajos Nagyidai Neischel was born in the XIII District of Budapest in 1901, in one of the thirteen Houses in the district of a very poor environment called Vizafogó. He was already a talented artist at primary school, and his talents also showed at high school.

He enrolled the University of Budapest, where the philosophy professor Alexander Bernard had profound influence on him.
He did not finish his studies because his interest turned to Visual Arts. He was privately educated: with the sculptor Imre Simay, an important figure of secessionist graphic Jenő Haranghy and the landscape painter István Bosznay. Later, he enrolled the evening graphic courses of the Arts and Crafts
School. His work was recognized at the beginning: he spent a year in Munich on a scholarship, but later his trip to Paris failed.

From the end of the 1920s had to face living issues. He worked as an accountant, taxman and draughtsman. At the beginning of the 1940s he came into contact with left-wing, radical visual artists but their organization was made powerless by the authorities of the times.

After World War II he began with zest for work, but was hampered by a series of diseases. First he found job through his father-in-law in Tiszafüred, later on his family helped him find a job in Ózd. From there, he transferred to the Forestry in Répáshuta. He spent the last decade and the half of his life in Miskolc. There, defying his heart disease, he kept working and did most of his oeuvre. However, he remained a lonely artist all through his life.

The oeuvre of the artist who was related to Tiszafüred through his wife, Ida Nagy, was contradictory and multi-layers. Partly the composition, the decorativity and the dominion of shapes, on the other hand, the lines, contours, the contrasts characterize his pictures.

These two are the opposite of each other, but works of art by Lajos Nagyidai Neischel Syed suggest desire for harmony.