Biography
He began his studies in Nagybánya with Béla Iványi Grünwald, then studied in Munich in 1902. A year later, he traveled to Paris, where he became a student of Jean-Paul Laurens at the Julian Academy. From 1905 onwards, his works were regularly exhibited in Paris at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants. When World War I broke out, he went to Holland and joined the Bergen group of painters led by Le Fauconnier. In 1919, he had a solo exhibition at Paul Cassirer's gallery in Berlin. In the following years, he became acquainted with German Expressionist painters and exhibited together with Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein and other painters at the Galerie Ferdinand Möller's exhibition "Kreis der Brücke" in Berlin. From 1925, he worked in Paris.