He was born in a priest family, near Shkoder. Upon arrival to Belgrade, he was a student of Cyril Kutljik. With a very difficult financial conditions he managed to study in Prague, Vienna and Munich. In World War I firstly participated as a soldier and later as a war painter of the Supreme Command in Corfu. Was a teacher of evening craft school in Belgrade and a member of "Lada". The opus of Kosta Milicevic Lazar Trifunovic bescribes through four different periods: school (1895-1908), Belgrade (1909-1914), Veles (1915) and Corfu (1916-1920).