A successful artist, he was friends with Han van Meegeren and from the 1920s began to sit on various art jury committees.

[3] His work was also included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

In 1941 he was selected by Tobie Goedewaagen to be the director of the Gilde voor Bouwkunst, Beeldende Kunsten en Kunstambacht, the part of the Nederlandsche Kultuurkamer that concerned the visual arts.

The Kultuurkamer was opened in The Hague in 1942 as the local subdivision of the governmental agency Reichskulturkammer and only artists who were members were allowed to sell their art.

It was closed to Jews and many artists refused membership, though not so much out of solidarity with their Jewish colleagues, but out of a firm belief that art had no place in the political arena and could not be judged by government employees.