He trained as a Teacher of Drawing at the Higher School of Industrial Arts in Stockholm and then studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts under, Olle Hjortzberg. During the 1920s he travelled on painting study trip to Germany and Austria where he was influenced by early German Expressionism and Oskar Kokoschka. He was more than unusual amongst young Swedish painters at the time in completely ignoring France. He showed with the artist collectives ‘Nio Unga’ and ‘Färg och Form’ during the economic crisis of the 1930s. He became one of the most celebrated painters of the Skåne landscape, praised by the great Swedish critic Gustaf Nasstrom for his interpretation of the province in oil with “a distinct personal temperament with a clear eye for the topographical characteristics of the districts but at the same time with an imaginative rewriting of provincial reality”.
He was a successful illustrator, stained glass designer for a number of churches and commissioned to decorate the Malmö Opera. Public collections include Malmö Art Museum, The Swedish Museum of Modern Art, Kalmar Art Museum, Norrköping Art Museum and Gothenburg Art Museum.