Schooled at Mažeikiai Gymnasium. In 1957 he graduated from the LSSR Institute of Art. Since 1957 lecturer at the Lithuanian Art Institute, 1969-1974 vice-rector, 1974-1988 rector. Since 1980 professor. Since 1989 professor at the Šiauliai Pedagogical Institute (since 1997 Šiauliai University), professor of the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Arts.
One of the most prominent painters of the 1960s-1970s, during that period he created works that were ideologically committed, but visually suggestive. After his internship in Italy in 1963-1964, his work is influenced by Italian neorealism, characterised by a plastically expressive, sometimes ironic motif of everyday life, reportage, psychological characterisation of the sitter, and the rendering of inner conflicts. The compositional structure of the painting is based on the principle of the photographic frame, cinematographic montage. Later works are dominated by landscapes, still lifes, mainly flowers, animalistic genre paintings - horses, poultry.
More important paintings."Showcase", 1960; "Family", "Kolūkietė", both 1962; "Accident", "After Discussion", both 1964; "Bed" I, "Demonstration", triptych "To the East", all 1965."Portrait of the artist Leopoldas Surgailis", 1966; triptych "Lithuania in 1919", 1967-1974; "Jų užmiršti nevalia", "Aistros", both 1969; diptych "Art, People, Events", 1972; "Rectors' Council", 1981; "Adam and Eve", 1986, 1981, 2006, Moscow - 1988.
