Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Daga 1874 zuwa 1877, ya halarci Jami'ar Stuttgart, babban jami'in gine-gine. Ya kuma yi karatun zane-zane kuma ya shiga Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Prussian, inda malamansa Fritz Schaper da Albert Wolff, suka kammala karatunsa a 1879. Hotonsa "Siegerbote von Marathon" (Manzon daga Marathon
) ya kawo masa "Prix-de-Rome" daga Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Prussian, wanda ya hada da stipendium wanda ya ba shi damar yin tafiya zuwa Roma daga 1881 zuwa 1882.