He received his artistic education at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts between 1927 and 1931. His teachers were
Gyula Rudnay and István Réti . In 1958 he was awarded the Munkácsy Prize, and was awarded the Munkácsy Memorial Medal and the Gold Degree of the Order of Merit for Labor. From 1955 he was a teacher at the Budapest and Eger Teacher Training Colleges. From 1964 he was a teacher at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts, later its deputy director. From 1965 he lived in Szentendre and from 1972 he was active in the new Szentendre artist colony. From 1935 he was an exhibiting artist, having had solo exhibitions at the Hungarian National Gallery, the Slovak House of Culture, Košice, Bratislava, Komárom, Prague and participated in ...