He moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1942 and, with a scholarship granted by the government of Rio Grande do Sul, he attended for a short time the National School of Fine Arts - Enba. Not satisfied with the academic proposal, he studied with Guignard (1896-1962) and founded, in 1943, with other artists, the Guignard Group. In 1947 he received the prize for traveling abroad and went to Europe the following year. In Rome, he studied with Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978), Carlos Alberto Petrucci, Antônio Achille and Leone Augusto Rosa, and in Paris, with André Lhote (1885-1962). He returned to Brazil in 1950 and, in 1952, became a member of the National Commission of Plastic Arts. In 1953 he founded the engraving course of the Municipal Institute of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, now the School of Visual Arts at Parque Lage - EAV / Parque Lage. In 1954, he participated with Djanira (1914-1979) and Milton Dacosta (1915-1988), of the organization of the Black and White Hall.In 1966 he executed a 49 square meter panel offered by Brazil to the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. From 1970, he teaches at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS.In 1986, he received the honorary doctorate degree from the Federal University of Santa Maria - UFSM. His publications include the article Treatise on Metal Engraving, 1964, the technical book A Gravura, 1992 and the short story book On the Floor of Time: 9 short stories and an autobiographical sketch, 1988.