Between 1912 and 1913 she was a student of Lajos Deák Ébner at the Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest. In 1914 she studied under the supervision of Béla Iványi Grünwald in the Kecskemét colony of artists. In 1919 she attended the private school of Róbert Berény, and in 1920/21 she became a student of János Vaszary in the Academy of Fine Arts. In February 1922 she had a joint exhibition with István Csók, József Rippl-Rónai and János Vaszary in the Helikon Gallery, and in October of the same year she had a one-artist show of her artworks in the National Salon.

From 1924 she lived in Paris for seven years. Here she earned her living from dance-lessons. She instructed Piet Mondrian, too, among others. In 1924 she had a one-artist exhibition in the Galerie Visconti, and then she regularly participated in the shows of the Salon des Indépendants. In 1925 her works appeared in the second exhibition of the New Society of Artists in Budapest. She would then participate in subsequent exhibitions of the society.

She returned to Hungary in 1930, and from this year on she would spend the summers in Kiskunmajsa in the Great Plain of Hungary. In 1931 she founded the New Group of Woman Artists with 13 of her fellow artists. In 1938 she held a sole exhibition in the Tamás Gallery, and in the same year she participated in international woman artists' exhibitions in London and then in New York, in 1939. An exhibition of her collected works was opened in 1968 in the Ernst Museum.