Trained as an architect, he devoted his time to both architecture and art until 1940 when he dedicated the remainder of his life to painting subject matter in Brooklyn, New York.
[1] With the exception of a single visit back to Hungary and a three-week stay in Chicago, he spent the rest of his life in Brooklyn.
[5] However, Suba's adopted city impacted a major shift in painting style from countrysides and landscapes to industrial subject matter.
Suba's work depicts industrialization and modernization, rendered in precise, sharply defined geometrical forms.
As shown in his works, Suba had an intimate relationship with his Brooklyn; from its alleys and waterways to its storefronts and industrial plants, as well as its views of Manhattan.