Since 1921 he lived in Vilnius. In 1927-1931 he attended the art studio of V. Kairiūkštis. In 1936 he graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Vilnius University, a student of L. Slendzinski. In 1937-1938 he studied at the State Institute of Handicrafts in Warsaw. From 1931 to 1940 (with a break) he worked as a teacher in Vilnius gymnasiums. Inspector of the People's Commissariat of Education of the LSSR from 1940-1941. In 1940-1941 and 1944 he worked in the Vilnius "Dailės" cooperative. 1941-1944 - keeper of the funds of the Vilnius Museum of the Guthenians, 1945-1946 - director of the Ethnographic Museum, 1946-1961 - head of the Department of Fine Arts of the Vilnius Art Museum. Lecturer at the Vilnius Art Institute 1946-1950, lecturer at the Lithuanian Art Institute 1957-1970, lecturer at Vilnius University 1956-1958. From 1970 to 1985 he worked at the Institute of Monument Conservation.
Since 1931 he has participated in exhibitions. Solo exhibitions were held in 1980 by the Lithuanian Art Museum and in 1981 by the M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum. He was mainly involved in his work before World War II and during the war years. His early works are geometric forms, bright contrasting colours, stylised domestic scenes ("The Artist" in 1928, "Laundry" in 1930) and futuristic visions ("Vilnius in the 2000s" in 1928), in which he used collage and photomontage.
While studying, he was influenced by Neoclassicism. From the 1930s onwards, he worked more in the field of graphic art. In the technique of colour linocut he created stylised still lifes of generalised forms, and in woodcuts he mostly depicted the Old Town of Vilnius ("The Pious City of Vilnius", "The Gothic Fantasy of Vilnius", both 1937).
1936-1938 he decorated books and other publications by Lithuanian poets (J. Kėkšto, O. Miciūtė, A. Žukauskas). He created posters, ex-librises, stage designs. After the Second World War, he published articles in the Lithuanian and Polish press on art and architecture of the late 18th and 19th centuries.
Wrote monographs, studies on Vilnius architecture, biographies for the "Polish Artists' Directory" (Słownik artystów polskich, 6 vols. 1971-1998). His works are in the Lithuanian Art Museum, the National Museum of M. K. Čiurlionis, private collections in Lithuania and Poland
