In 1883, he drew attention to himself at a local art exhibit by creating a plaster bust of Ahasuerus, and he was able to obtain a special scholarship from the Minister of Education, Ágoston Trefort.

After 1888, thanks to another scholarship from the Pressburg Savings Bank, he was able to enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where he studied with Edmund von Hellmer.

His graduation work remains one of his most familiar; a full crucifix (1891), made in Hellmer's workshop, for which he received a prize of 1,000 florins from the Hungarian Society of Fine Arts.

There, he entered and won a contest sponsored by the City of Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca), to create a monument for King Matthias Corvinus.

In 1903. he took part in another competition, for a monument to Empress Elisabeth of Austria, but died suddenly, apparently from complications related to tuberculosis.