From 1977 until his retirement in 1987, he worked as a professor at the Department of Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Sarajevo.
In his artistic work, he primarily dealt with the human figure, and his oeuvre contains many nudes and portraits.
A series of some 20 female nudes entitled Dunje is considered to hold an important place in his oeuvre.
[2] In 1950 he participated at the Venice Biennale along with Vanja Radauš, Vojin Bakić and Zoran Mušič.
In 1973 he had a retrospective exhibition at the Modern Gallery in Zagreb, on which occasion a monograph was published to mark 40 years of his work.