Career
Following his studies at the Technical University, Budapest from 1927 to 1929, he enrolled in the Art School where he was a pupil of Gyula Rudnay. His painting was initially influenced by József Rippl-Rónai and Róbert Berény. From the mid-1930s onwards, his style emulated that of Chagall whose influence affected his artwork in his paintings such as The Old Church Servant Thinks of Heaven, and the Dream of Bear Leader.
He visited Paris in 1937 where he met Chagall.
Some of his works show the influence of legends about the famous Chassidic Kaliver Rebbe, Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Taub (1744–1828), who was also from Nagykálló. In 1940 during World World War II he became a victim of the Holocaust because he was Jewish.
He was taken to a forced labour camp in Vojvodina, then to the battlefield in the east. In 1944 he was deported to a concentration camp in Saxony where he later died cruelly.
Throughout the war he painted about his tragic experiences in shocking visions such as A eries of Dark Times, Escaping, and War.
He died only aged 37 or 38.