Painter. He was T. Kaerling's pupil in Pest, then L. Kupelwieser's and J.N.Ender's in Vienna. He lived on private lessons and lithographs. He painted genre lives in the 1830s ("Dressing the Bride", "Palm Sunday", etc.). He went to Munich in 1840. On his return to Hungary, he painted several historic pictures ("János Hunyadi's Death", 1844, "King Solomon in Prison", 1852, etc.). He visited Italy in 1845-47 where he painted vedutas and women in folk dress ("Portrait of Mihály Mosonyi, Composer, and his Wife", "Pest Citizen").