[1] He attended the Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi, and was a student of İhsan Özsoy, there from 1924 to 1928.

Graduating at the end of that period, he earned a scholarship to Europe and went to Paris, France.

He studied art history at the Louvre and aesthetic lessons at Sorbonne.

In 1939, he taught at the Ankara Gazi Eğitim Enstisüsü, and later at the Fine Arts Institute in Istanbul.

After staying in Paris again from 1947 to 1949, he came back to the Academy, and started to teach in his own atelier.