He was born in Kamenice in 1899. He studied history and geography in Vienna and Ljubljana. In 1932 he became the banovin archivist in Maribor. After the end of the Second World War, he became the first director of the Maribor Regional Museum, which he headed before and during the war. In 1947, he set up a new permanent exhibition and, after 1949, introduced new inventory books for movable heritage.

After the war, he participated in the Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes and the Restitution Commission of the FRY. In 1950, he joined the Ministry of Science and Culture in Ljubljana, where he was head of the department for museums, monument conservation and fine arts. In mid-June 1952, he became the director of the Technical Museum of Slovenia.

After the war he spent a short period in Maribor, where he continued his field research, mainly on farmhouses and outbuildings. In 1948 he formed field teams to document typical examples of rural architecture and their inventories. This type of fieldwork was a novelty in Slovenia at that time.

As one of the pioneers in the field of the investigation of heritage in Slovenia, he was the first to take up a lectureship in museology and conservation at the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.