Ferenczy who moved to Nagybánya was engaged in a number of issues. He thought that a fundamental condition of artistic creation was work. His exemplary consistency and resoluteness influenced artists at the art school the same way as did his painting which had been gradually evolving. Besides biblical subject matters and landscapes, he portrayed typical figures in Nagybánya, a small town in Transylvania. Subject matters represented artistic challenges for him. He painted wood cutters returning home three times. Wood Cutters Returning Home, a picture in somewhat lighter tone, is more fascinating than the other two of gloomy atmosphere. Warm beams of the sun going down gild the exhausted male figures. The deep humanity of the artist lends a poetic atmosphere to the picture. His pantheistic attitude to nature which characterises mainly Three Kings and Evening with Horses of the same period, gives a new meaning to the composition with the wood cutters. Figures live together with nature where they originally come from, and golden and greenish reflexes appear everywhere, on man and landscape.