He studied in free schools: he attended Elemér Halász-Hradil's art school in Kassa, Ferenc Szablya-Frischauf's in Budapest where he took Károly Ferenczy's evening course. He enrolled in the Julian Academy, Paris in 1911. His style of composition based on order of structure developed around 1910. His early works characterize his style best: space and mass are modelled in a plastic way, motifs are emphasized on the ground of equality and world is defined according to a logical order ("Standing Female Nude", 1910, "Male Nude", 1911, "Self-Portrait", 1911, "Self-Portrait with an Apple", 1911, "Kecskemét", 1912, "Landscape with Shrubbery", 1911, "Ascension", 1913, and "Concert", 1918).

In the early 1930s, a less formal period starte light played a more important role in composition ("Still Life with Fruits", 1930, "Nagybánya", 1932, "Men in the Street", 1930, etc.), then the series of still-lives and self-portrats with harsher compositions followed.

He was a teacher of the Art School from 1946 to 1969. In the 1950s, he painted still-lives again and pictures on work. He did not give up his principles of composition, thus the geometrics of his pictures became even stronger.