Painter. Following his studies in Vienna he first settled in Venice, then in Besztercebánya (Banska Bistrica, Slovakia) in 1885. He was a major contributor to Slovakian fine art. First he painted scenes of the life of Venice and later those of the miners of Besztercebánya. His scenes of the life of officers' clubs and small town saloons were also received favourably. Those of his works that are valued highly today are primarily the ones that depict the work performed in industrial plants and mills; in these works his painter eye focused on the industrial proletariat. His genre paintings born in a naturalistic concept (At Work; Copper-Mill at Besztercebánya) won him a small state medal in 1905. Several of his paintings can be found in private and state collections in Hungary and in Slovakia. His more widely known pictures include: 'In Church'; 'The Painter and His Model'; 'Copper-Mill at Besztercebánya'; 'A Small Guest'; 'Modern Paris'; 'It Is Easy to Gloat Over Another One's Misfortune'; 'Daily Bread' (Hungarian National Gallery).