From 1922 to 1929 he was a student of Gyula Rudnay and János Vaszary. During the time between 1924 and 1926 he frequented the Graphic Department headed by Viktor Olgyai. In 1926 he travelled to Paris. In 1928 during his study trip to Berlin he got acquainted with Herwarth Walden thanks to Hugo Scheiber's mediation; in 1929 with the help of László Moholy-Nagy he was able to hold an exhibition in the Sturm Gallery. From 1928 he was a member of the Association of New Artists; from 1929 he was present at the exhibitions of the New Society of Artists. From the late 1920s his works were presented at one-man exhibitions in the Tamás Gallery (1929, 1934), the Ernst Museum (1938) and in the National Salon (1944). In 1930 and 1931 he was a scholar at the Rome-based Collegium Hungaricum. In 1943 he painted in Transylvania; between 1947 and 1948 he went on study trips to Korea, China and Vietnam.

He was a teacher of the College of Applied Arts (1946-1949) and later became director thereof (1958-1963); he was also a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts (1949-1963). In 1959 he won the silver medal of the Leipzig Book Exposition for his illustrations. From the 1950s a number of his monumental commissions were realise the gobelin tapestry of the Fészek Club and of the Debrecen University of Agriculture, as well as the glass mosaics and glass windows of the Semmelweis University of Medicine. He was also active making small plastics and burned ceramics. From the 1960s his works were on display in the Dürer Hall (1964), the Petőfi Literary Museum (1968), the Budapest Historical Museum (1971), the Hungarian National Gallery (1976), the Vigadó Gallery (1980) and in the Greek church of Vác (1981); permanent exhibition of his artworks was organised in Vác in 1984. As an acknowledgement of his art, he was granted several prizes: the Munkácsy Prize (1952, 1957), the Kossuth Prize (1958), the titles 'Merited Artist' (1964) and 'Excellent Artist' (1968).