Painter, graphic artist, textile and furniture designer. He began his studies as a student of Adolf Fényes. From 1924 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, where István Réti and István Csók were his masters. He joined the group of young artists organised around the art magazine of Lajos Kassák - who just returned from his exile - entitled 'Munka' (Work) at the end of the twenties. His painting was primarily influenced by French cubism, the art of Picasso and Braque. He was expelled from the Academy because of his avant-garde artistic concepts, together with his fellow artists: György Kepes, Dezső Korniss and Sándor Trauner. He became later a member of the New Artist Union and the New Society of Artists, and for a short time he was a member of the Group of Socialist Artists. He participated in exhibitions from 1928, his first one-artist show was held in the Tamás Gallery in 1932. He did not paint much from the mid-thirties, instead, he was engaged mainly in textile and furniture design, and interior design. His activities in applied arts were mainly inspired by the Bauhaus and the forms used in Hungarian folklore. He organised a carpet-weaving workshop in Békésszentandrás. From the second half of the thirties he would regularly visit the Colony of Artists at Szentendre, and he became a regular member of the colony in 1946. He then played a major role in reorganising the Old Colony. After 1945 he was mainly involved in organising. He founded and ran a firm to supply with decorations the events organised by the Communist Party. Between 1948 and 1952 he worked as the director of the Hungarian College of Applied Arts, then as a teacher until the end of his life. His commemorative exhibition was held in the Hungarian National Gallery in 1978, and another one in the Szentendre Colony of Artists' Gallery in 1986.