Referred to as a "naïve" painter, his works exhibit a dry wit and refreshingly candid, satirical view of life.
Many well-known personalities of the time were friends of his grandfather, i.e. the painters Hans Purrmann, Karl Caspar, Maria Caspar-Filser (cousin of his mother), the writer Martin Andersen Nexø, the Swabian poet Wilhelm Schussen [de] as well as the poet and writer Oskar Wöhrle [de], Balets godfather.
Because his mother and his grandmother had difficulties bringing him up after the death of his grandfather, in 1926 Balet was sent to boarding school in Germany, Schule Schloss Salem.
In 1929, at the age of 17, he moved to Berlin at the invitation of his father and studied drawing at the college of Arts and Crafts (Kunstgewerbeschule Ost am Schlesischen Bahnhof).
Balet rented his first small studio at the age of nineteen, where he manufactured and sold hand colored Bavarian woodcuts.
In early 1938, Balet was recruited by the German military and because his ancestor's passport was not complete, he was forbidden to associate further with the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
Soon after he travelled to Europe to visit his mother and his grandmother in Munich and then spent two months in Paris, which provided great inspiration for his future work.
As a former pupil of Olaf Gulbransson, Balet was invited, in 1964, to present an exhibition in the Pavillon Alter Botanischer Garten Munich.
In 1965, Balet and his wife Lisa divorced and he returned to Munich where he started to illustrate children's books again, to paint his impressions of his various journeys and to hold exhibitions of his work.
Baletand and his wife, Claudia, moved to Estavayer le Lac on Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland in 1978 so he would not have to travel so far to Zurch to work on his lithographs.