Painter, college teacher, member of the Group of Socialist Artists, then later a member of the European School. Following his graduation from the School of Applied Arts he studied under the supervision of Gyula Rudnay at the Academy of Fine Arts. He participated in the exhibitions organised by the Szinyei Society of Young Artists and the New Society of Artists, and from 1934 he was regularly present at the shows of the Group of Socialist Artists (Sitting Worker, Arriving Home, Tiredness, Factory District, The War etc.). He was one of generation of the young artists at Szentendre. At around 1937 he suffered a mental breakdown and the terror of the war appeared more and more emphatically in his paintings. In 1946 he was a founding member of the European School and he participated in the individual and collective exhibitions of this organisation. Primarily his surrealistic compositions and studies of female figures were remembered. After 1948 his art turned in the direction of photographic and epical genre painting. He became a teacher of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1950. He left Hungary in 1956, and lived in Paris and Argentina for some time. Later he became a department head at the Painting Academy of Tel Aviv. He turned to abstract painting in the last years of his life. His artworks were exhibited in a number of individual and group exhibitions in Budapest.