Painter, graphic artist. He obtained a degree as a mechanical engineer at the Budapest Technical University, then another degree as an art teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest in 1933. Then he taught descriptive geometry and mechanics in a school of industrial drawing. In 1930 he joined the New Artist Union. He became a member of the Group of Socialist Artists in 1934. After a long interruption he started to draw again from 1937. Even in his early artworks one can observe his peculiar affinity toward form structures woven from lines that became a common feature of his entire oeuvre; at this time these were richly modelled networks revealing the internal structure of the visible objects of the external world.

From 1938 to 1944 he spent several summers in Szentendre, where he was greatly impressed by the art of Lajos Vajda. The pottery workshop he ran with his wife, Éva Barta functioned as one of the centres of the illegal leftist political movement, as this was the place where he made forged documents and thus saved several people's lives. Although he joined the European School in 1945, he did not participate in the activities of the group because of conceptual disagreements. In 1946-47 his non-figurative compositions of dramatic or lyric tone were shown in the exhibitions of the group of Abstract Artists. When the artistic movement promoted by the communist party, i.e. 'socialist realism', became the dominant trend, he gave up all artistic activities, as his artistic conviction was contrary to this kind of art. From this time on he worked as an engineer in managerial positions in large state-owned companies. He took up arts again in 1965, following his retirement, and he developed further the visual problems he had struggled with in the forties. In his artworks the streams of fine-thin lines serving to preserve the exactness of the engineering work of the past, and the structures construed of organic or nearly geometric elements are built up and directed or moved by superhuman, indescribable forces as well as the internal vibrations of the artist's soul.