Biography
He began his studies with Fényes Adolf. From 1924, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, where István Réti and István Csók were his masters. At the end of the 1920s, Lajos Kassák's magazine, returning from emigration, joined the group of young people organized around Munka. Because of his avant-garde artistic ideas; He was expelled from the college together with György Kepes, Dezső Korniss, and Sándor Trauner.
His painting was mainly influenced by the works of French Cubism, Picasso and Braque. In 1932, he had an abstract art exhibition at the Tamás Gallery. From the mid-1930s, he painted little, instead he mainly worked on textile and furniture design and interior design. His applied art activity was primarily inspired by the Bauhaus and the forms of Hungarian folk art.
From the second half of the thirties, he was a frequent visitor to the Szentendre artist colony, of which he became a regular member in 1946 and played a major role in the reorganization of the Old Artist Colony.
After 1945, he was mainly active as an organizer, founding and running a decoration company serving the events of the Communist Party. In 1948-1952, he was the director of the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts, and then taught there until his death.
His memorial exhibition was organized in 1978 at the Hungarian National Gallery, then in 1986 at the gallery of the Szentendre Art Colony.
