Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I kitea wawe mai tōna pūmanawa ki te peita whakaahua, ā, i tere haere atu ia i te whare whakairo a Pfyffer. I puta tana whai wāhitanga i te wā i marenatia ai tana tuahine a Johanna ki tētahi kaipakihi mai i Berlin. I whakaae a Johanna me tana tahu kia noho ia ki a raua ki reira, a ka kitea e ia he waahi hei akonga i roto i te akomanga motuhake a nga wahine i whakaakona e Karl Gussow. I te tau 1882, i whakaatuhia e ia tana whakaaturanga tuatahi me tetahi kaihokohoko toi i Zurich a he pai te manako. I taua tau ano, i whai ia i tetahi hoa ki Paris, i reira i kitea ai e ia tetahi tuunga i nga whare wananga o Carolus-Duran me Jean-Jacques Henner. I te tau 1887, ka taea e ia te tautoko i a ia ano ma te hoko me te komihana, kaore ano kia whakawhirinaki ki ona maatua. I uru ia ki te Salon, a, i riro i a ia te Tohu hiriwa i te Exposition Universelle (1889). I whakaatuhia e ia ana mahi i te
Ko te Whare Wahine i te 1893 World's Columbian Exposition i Chicago, Illinois.