The boy was raised in a family of eight children inherited dexterity from his father. After leaving grammar school, he began working at the furniture factory of Székely and Réti in Marosvásárhely, where he learned wood carving. He began studying Fine Arts with Antal Orbán, where he was a private student. He moved to Budapest in 1929, in 1930 he was admitted in the Academy of Fine Arts, where his tutor was Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl, then, after graduating from college he was Kisfaludi's teaching assistance for five years (1935-1938).