Studied painting and drawing in the Serbian painter's and draughtsman's school of Kyril Kutlik, and later Beta Vukanović. In 1905. enrolls private painting school of Anton Ažbe, and in the same year the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich.

After his return to the homeland, he was, first, appointed as a teacher in a grammar school, and later a professor of drawing in the Arts and Crafts School in Belgrade. He was a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade from 1940 to 1945 as a full-time professor of printmaking.

Travels through the country and abroad, and makes drawings which were published in several specially edited albums. He was a member of "Lada" artist's group.

In 1922 he became a member of Serbian royal academy (later Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts).