[1] Born in Nagyszeben, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Sibiu, Romania), he and his family fled to Győr in 1916, after the Romanian invasion; they settled there in 1922.

He later had shows around Europe, including Linz, Austria (1964), Venice (1966), and Rome (1967), Zürich, Graz and Locarno in 1967.

He developed embossing of copper plates (which was a rare technique at that point in history), and produced a number of sculptures for public places and sepulchral monuments focusing on a modern environmental culture which often bore a deep personal message and reflected great intimacy (combining symbolic motifs of natural life, as well as cultural values).

Human and animal figures were common subject, and his forté was not in fine detail but in creating overall masterpieces.

Works of this period include the Portrait of József Egry (1952), Sybilla Pannonica (1963), Lighea (1968), The Young Parca (1964), and Canticus Canticorum (1977).