Maržik was born in Kraljevo on July 14, 1897 in the family of a military doctor of Czech origin. Maržik was brought up in the family in which creation of works of art was highly appreciated. Having finished primary school in Kraljevo, he entered and successfully graduated from Handicraft School in Belgrade in 1910, where among his professors Rista i Beta Vukanović, Marko Murat and Ljuba Ivanović, well known Serbian painters. Maržik's works, the choice of motif and style were particularly influenced by Ljuba Ivanović, primarily a good drawer. Maržik spent a part of period of the World War I in Kraljevo as a volunteer attendant in Serbian Army. Those were the days out of which his oldest drawings came, the ones inspired by the old small town of Kraljevo, made in pencil on paper. The war being over, he continued his education at Fine Arts Academy in Prague where among other professors was a highly respected painter Vlaho Bukovac.
