Biography
Painter, graphic designer. He began his art studies in his native village, at Károly Kernstok's free school, and then, with the support of his master, continued from 1910 at his free school in Budapest. Later, he enrolled in the School of Industrial Design, where in 1913, he won first prize in a scholarship competition with his glass window The Prophet..
In 1919, he actively participated in the work of Kernstok's free school in Nyergesújfalu. In 1926-27, he was a student of the Julian Academy in Paris. From the 1930s, he worked as a manual laborer in the cement factory in factories in Nyergesújfalu. He also regularly participated in exhibitions.
After 1945, his artistic activity became more active. His figurative art is characterized by a kind of "expressive naturalism". At the beginning of his career, he was strongly influenced by the aspirations of his master, Kernstok and the Eight, hence the expressive momentum of his works. Later, he turned to the everyday world of the small objects around him, which he shaped into simple pictorial compositions with naive love. "Saying a lot with little" has become ars poetica. He mainly painted portraits, still lifes, and landscapes, and drew his motifs from his immediate surroundings. He liked watercolor and ink techniques. His most important solo exhibitions: Bp., Alkotás Művészház (1923), Fényes Adolf Hall (1957, 1964); Esztergom (1954, 1968, 1975); Székesfehérvár, (1957); Nyergesújfalu (1983, memorial exhibition).
