He received an elementary teaching degree and later he became a qualified teacher for secondary education. He taught at elementary and secondary schools as well as schools of commerce. In 1915 he received the doctoral title as a geography and history graduate at the Budapest Pázmány Péter University. At the same time in the 1910s he studied painting under the guidance of Henrik Pap and Béla Sándor at the School of Applied Arts. From 1911 he was regularly present at the exhibitions of the Art Gallery, the National Salon and later the Ernst Museum. The first person to pay attention to his art was Béla Kádár. Between 1914 and 1918 he painted portraits for the Museum of Military History in the historical group of the 30th Infantry Regiment. In 1918 and 1919 he was a secretary of the Civil Radical Party in the 6th district.

Around the mid-1920s he belonged to Vilmos Aba-Novák's Zugliget group. In 1925 he painted in the company of Aba-Novák, Károly Patkó and Emil Kelemen in Felsőbánya (Baia Sprie, Romania). In the summer of 1927 and 1928 besides his close co-operation with Aba-Novák and Patkó, he worked together with Kelemen, Jenő Barcsay and Eszter Mattioni in Igal and Törökkopány, Somogy County. At the Hungarian Landscape and Genre-painting Exhibition in the Budapest Art Gallery in 1927 and at the Balaton Society's Third Exhibition in 1928 he was awarded the prize of the Szinnyei Merse Pál Society. He was an exhibitor member of the Association of Hungarian Watercolour and Pastel Painters.

In the 1930s he made hundreds of portraits and miniatures to order. From the mid-1940s he was present with his works at the exhibitions of The Free Organisation of Hungarian Artists and of the National Salon. His memorial exhibition was organised in the Hungarian National Gallery (1978) and in the Budapest Historical Museum (1984).