Painter. After his studies at the School of Decorative Art in 1904-07, he was a pupil of Simon Hollósy in Munich and studied at Volakovski's free school in Paris. He visited Hollósy's summer school at Técső. After trips to Italy and Spain, he settled down in Debrecen in 1914. He painted pictures of the Great Plain and its people.

From the 1920s onwards, his interest was attracted by Biblical and theological subject matters. In his later pictures, he portrayed poverty ("Trout-Fly Collectors", 1929, "Mowing Lucerne", 1928). He painted pictures on Hungarian history ("Sacrifice of the White Horse", 1929, "Offering the Holy Crown", 1937). He kept on returning to the drama of peasant life, his subject matter ("Returning Home", 1941, "Corn Harvest", 1942, "Field Workers", 1942, "Gypsy Losers", 1947).

Subject matters of the pictures of the 1960s were more cheerful and less formal. His pictures painted in Tiszadad were colourful and had a variety of subject matters ("Colonel Simonyi is Planting Trees", 1960, "Bajusz's House", 1962). His last period was marked by still-lives, studio interiors, and landscapes, but his self-portraits and water colours were significant, too. He painted the frescoes of the crematorium in Debrecen (1932). His art was related to those of Tornyai, Rudnay and Koszta, yet it had an individual character.