Additional information: Born in 1913 at Komlosul-Mare in Roumania. After having completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade he subsequently studied since 1945 in Paris, and in 1952 in London where he specialized in stage and costume designs for the Belgrade theatres, for the National Theatre, the Dramatic Theatre, the Contemporary Theatre, the Božko Buha Childrens' Theatre, and also for the theatres of other republics, in Zagreb, Ljubljana, Novi Sad, Sarajevo and at Mostar. As a guest he has brought into effect stage and costume designs for the Operas in Brussels and Vienna, for the International Ballet Festival at Edinburgh, for the Rome Opera and for the National Theatre in Bucharest. From his most important stage and costume designs let us name the productions referring to Orphée by Stravinsky, The Marvellous Mandarin by Bartók, The Dead Queen (La Reine morte) by Montherlant, The Winter's Tale by Shakespeare and others. In 1966 his costume designs were awarded the Sterijino Pozorje Prize, in 1969 his stage designs the Prize of the October Salon, and in 1970 he was awarded the October Prize of Art and Science at the exhibition The Stage and the Costumes in the Belgrade Museum of Decorative Arts.
