Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Cike da kwarin gwiwa lokacin da ya dawo Berlin, ya kuduri aniyar samun nasara a matsayin mai zane-zane mai zaman kansa, yana shiga cikin gasa da yawa don abubuwan tunawa da maɓuɓɓugan ruwa. A shekara ta 1898, ya lashe manyan kwamitocin uku. A cikin 1899, ta hanyar abokinsa Constantin Starck, ya sadu da Duke John Albert na Mecklenburg, wanda ya so aikinsa kuma ya sanya umarni da yawa. Aikinsa ya tashi bayan wannan batu kuma shekarun 1897 zuwa 1916 sun tabbatar da cewa ya fi nasara. An ƙarfafa shi da maraba da ya samu a St. Louis World's Fair
a cikin 1904, ya shiga gasa don abubuwan tunawa a wurare daban-daban kamar Manila, Cape Town da Quito, amma ba tare da amfani ba. A ƙarshe ya karɓi umarni don abin tunawa ga Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly a Riga kuma an ba shi gayyatar yin gasa don abin tunawa a St. Louis wanda za a keɓe ga 'yan jaridar Jamus-Amurka Carl Schurz, Emil Preetorius da Carl Daenzer.