He studied painting at the Academy of Kolarosi and with André Lhote in Paris. On his return he started working as a drawing professor  in Artisan School in Novi Sad. During the thirties he started working as a set designer in the Serbian National Theatre and the National Theatre of the Danube Banovina in Novi Sad. After World War II he worked as a curator and director of the Museum of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad, until 1948, when he moved to Belgrade where he worked as a set designer in the Yugoslav Drama Theatre, and later as a professor at the Academy of Applied Arts and the Academy of Theatre, Film , radio and television in Belgrade. He has exhibited since 1926. He was a member of the group "The shape" and "Six".