Hungarian-born illustrator of children's books, painter in oils and watercolour, author of instructional books on drawing, creator of famous murals, designer of sets for opera and ballet and occasional Hollywood art director. A graduate of Budapest Technical University, he worked for Samuel Goldwyn at United Artists from 1927, creating giant-size props for the massive ice cream factory set in Eddie Cantor's
Kid Millions (1934). For the most part, he devoted himself to book and magazine illustrations ('American Weekly', 'Metropolitan', etc.), designing movie posters and advertisements for such products as Palmolive soap.