His artistic training began in 1903 in the Nagybánya art colony under the direction of Károly Ferenczy, an experience that forged his first technical foundations. His move to Paris in 1905 led him to attend the studio of JE Blanche in Montmartre, where he became immersed in the artistic effervescence of the district.
His interactions with Jean Buhot and Maurice Esmein fueled his interest in Oriental art and emerging Cubism. Exhibiting at the Salon des Indépendants, he worked alongside major figures such as Matisse and Rouault, fully participating in the aesthetic revolutions of his time.
The First World War abruptly interrupted his career: interned as a citizen of an enemy country, he only regained his creative freedom with the Roaring Twenties. This period marked a decisive turning point towards abstraction, which he explored through innovative compositions of lines and curves.
His commitment to abstract art was further demonstrated by his founding participation in the Abstraction-Création group in 1931, a key platform for promoting this revolutionary aesthetic. After the Second World War, he continued his avant-garde commitment by participating in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles.
In his later years, while remaining faithful to abstraction, he enriched his visual language by reintegrating figurative elements and collage techniques, demonstrating an artistic research that was never static. The Chicago retrospective in 1966, the year of his death, commemorates a career spanning more than sixty years dedicated to pictorial innovation and the constant evolution of his art.
