 He first attended the Arts and Crafts College, and then at various private art academies in Zagreb where he learned to hone his craft.In Munich his art teachers were Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl (1856-1925) and Hans Hoffmann, and in Paris at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, where his mentor was Paul Signac.He copied the works of the great masters in the Louvre, where he attained superior artistic skills.