Biography
He attended the College of Fine Arts between 1921-1926, his master was János Vaszary. In 1921, he studied in Munich with a Nemes Marcell scholarship. In 1928, he won the gold medal of the Venice Biennale. From 1927, he was a member of the New Society of Artists, from 1928 of the Association of New Artists, and was elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Arts. From 1940, he was a member of the Group of Socialist Artists, and in 1945 he was a founding member of the Rippl-Rónai Society.
After the events of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, he met Károl Kernstok in Nyergesújfalu, and after studying music and medicine in Budapest, he turned to fine arts. From 1920, he started working at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts under Antal Orbán, and then transferred to the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. In 1923, he went on a study trip to Paris. He continued his studies in Munich, Paris, and as a scholarship holder in Rome. Between 1929 and 1940, he worked in Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, where he was involved in the restoration of ancient monuments and created monumental building decoration works (fresco in the Parliament in Beirut, murals in the palace of King Fejsál II of Iraq in Baghdad, etc.). He returned home in 1940. He won the Székelyföld scholarship three times.
In the 1950s, he was forced to remain silent, at which time he worked as a restorer of the Aquincum Museum. His paintings and graphics were only seen in the public eye again in the 60s. His art was also influenced by naturalism, realism, futurism, cubism and expressionism. The landscape, the human figure, the face were the central subjects of his artistic interest. In the late creative period, his painting was completed in non-figurative form. His works are characterized by a clean way of composing, loose editing, decorativeness, sensitive color, and his motifs are characterized by the balance and synthesis of geometric and organic formation.
