Painter, graphic artist. He had give up school when he was a child and was obliged to work as an apprentice and day labourer until he was employed in a lawyer's office. After the war, he worked as a gold- and silversmith in his father's workshop in Dés when he took up drawing at Sándor Szopos. After moving to Pest, he attended the Applied Arts School and Podolini's free school. He worked in Italian factories as a silversmith from 1924. He visited galleries in Milan, Florence, Rome and Venice. "The Fourth Order", a series of lino-cuts, marked the years 1927-28.

His works reflected the impact of cubism in the late 1930s. He learnt from Hungarian painters, yet he was a follower to none. After the cubistic period, he was mainly engaged in expressionism. He painted dramatic pictures of peasants in a style resembling van Gogh's. His art was a link between Derkovits' expressionism and the expressive realism of the Alföld school. His book "On Art" reflects the views of a revolutionany artist.