Painter. After early drawing studies he learned pharmacology, then painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest. He moved to Szigliget in 1965 and beside artistic activities, he farmed there as well. He was brave to use the limitless possibilities of contemporary art, in a sovereign way. He borrowed the extreme handling of materials from surnaturalism, and the open use of forms and content from Pop Art. He painted with pastel and oil, utilized collage and assemblage as well. As a member of the circle around Miklós Erdély, he participated also in art performances. He developed his own private mythology, “gagaism.”
In 1971 he had an exhibition at the Mednyányszky Gallery, Budapest, which turned into a major press scandal. He had no more solo exhibitions during his lifetime. Parallel to his radical art practices, he regularly contributed (very well painted) landscapes and still lifes to the Képcsarnok Company (the official distributor of popular artworks to the people) for financial reasons. In his final year, during his serious illness, he created new works from the pieces of his old pictures, “to give shape and therefore meaning to all that happens to a person.” His memorial exhibition was organized in the Szent István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár, in 1990. His retrospective was held at Műcsarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest, in 2003.
