Born in a humble home, he worked in various trades including as a carpenter and typographer. In 1918 he went to Paris but it took three years for him to start painting. In 1921, he was integrated into the artistic environment of Montmartre, where he had his workshop and thus began to exhibit in various salons in Paris.

In 1925 he was published in Paris in Ch. Baudelaire’s Une Courtisane with his illustrations.

Between 1927 and 1936 he lived between Tossa de Mar and Barcelona, ​​[2] holding various exhibitions at the Sala Parés and others at the Sala Busquets and at the Syra Galleries. In the 1930s he made Tossa de Mar known among foreign painters together with the painter and critic Rafael Benet who wrote the article Tossa, babel de las Artes in October 1934.

Between 1936 and 1953 he went into exile in Paris but this did not prevent him from exhibiting regularly in Barcelona. In 1945 he was one of the organizers in the French capital of the Catalan Art Salon. The same year, he participated in the exhibition organized by Solidaritat Catalana at the Altarriba gallery in Paris for the benefit of Catalan deportees and prisoners returning from Germany. Exhibition echoed by Per Catalunya, a magazine published in Nice in which Pere Créixams collaborated as an illustrator.

In 1961 he was awarded the medal of the city of Paris.