He pursued his studies under the supervision of István Réti at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts from 1919 to 1926. He stood out with his ecclesiastical artworks at the very beginning of his career, particularly with his painting 'Saint Francis Preaches To The Birds'. In 1926 he won the first prize at the National Exhibition of Religious Art, and in 1927 he was granted a state stipend that allowed him to travel to Italy on a study trip. In the meantime, together with seven fellow artists he founded the Szentendre Colony of Artists in 1926, and in 1928 the Society of Szentendre Painters. He painted naturalistic landscapes and townscapes and ecclesiastical works of arts reflecting the impacts of the trecento and quattrocento, all at the same time. The latter were often awarded prizes (1929, 1930. Jellinek Gida-Prize, 1930. Budapest Painting Prize, 1931-32. Ecclesiastical Painting Prize, Padova, 1934. Franz Joseph Painting Prize etc.) In the early 1930s the impacts of the Italian Pittura Metafisica and his Mediterranean memories started to appear in his art, including his religious paintings.

Although officially he was not among the scholars in Rome, still he was admitted among the members of the Roman School as propagated by Tibor Gerevich, and participated in their exhibitions. In 1932-33 together with three of his fellow painters he painted the sanctuary of the Saint John the Baptist parish church in Szentendre. From the forties he was mainly engaged in painting the altar pieces and stations of the Cross in town and village churches.