Painter, the brother of sculptor Lajos Barta and the painter and applied artist, Mária Barta. He pursued his studies under the guidance of Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch in the School of Applied Art from 1912, then he was on various study-trips abroad from 1913 to 1927. He participated in the propaganda activities of the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919. He worked in Szentendre in 1929 and 1930, and painted in Nagybánya (Baia Mare, Romania) in 1934. He spent most of the 1930s abroad. Initially, his painting was influenced by the Art Nouveau and later he painted landscapes of emphatic plasticity. After some pieces bearing the marks of social realism, he painted postimpressionist landscapes as well as non-figurative pictures from the end of the 1950s.