Painter and graphic artist. From 1924 he was a student at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts. His masters till 1930 were: Gyula Rudnay, István Csók, János Vaszary; between 1935 and 1937 his master was Ágost Benkhard. Despite his successful career start he suspended his art studies and became a student at the university of medicine. From 1930 to 1934 he was a scholar in Rome. Between 1959 and 1961 he lived in France. From 1930 he appeared in national and foreign exhibitions, but he did not have exhibitions from the 50s for a long time.

His oeuvre consists of graphic pieces for the most part and paintings for the lesser part, but his painting and drawing are in fact inseparable. His drawings are characterised by meticulousness, sanguine story-telling gusto and soaring imagination, and his oil paintings have the same merits. His historical, multi-figure pieces evoking the prominent shapers and crucial events of the historical past are outstanding. His trances taking him back into the realm of the past sometimes appear with the bizarre combination of the 'danse macabre' of the middle ages and carnival themes and thus contribute to the typical feature of his art: the grotesque. His dynamic, sometimes humorous representation method full of lively naive details make his art akin to folklore.