He took up his studies in art at the School of Applied Art, and then attended the Model Drawing School between 1901 and 1903. An exhibition of his collected works opened at the Artists House in 1910. He worked in the colony of Nagybánya in the summer of 1911. He fell into Russian captivity during the First World War, and only returned after seven years had elapsed. From the late twenties onwards he showed his work together with the artists of KUT many times.