Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Mai i te 1874 ki te 1877, i haere ia ki te Whare Wānanga o Stuttgart, i te kaupapa o te hoahoanga. I ako hoki ia i te toi ka uru ki te Whare Wananga o nga Toi o Prussia, kei reira ona kaiako ko Fritz Schaper me Albert Wolff, ka oti ana akoranga i te 1879. Ko tana whakapakoko "Siegerbote von Marathon" (Te karere mai i
Ko Marathon) i whakawhiwhia ki a ia te "Prix-de-Rome" mai i te Prussian Academy of Arts, i uru atu ki te karahipi i taea ai e ia te haere ki Roma mai i te 1881 ki te 1882.