His desire to study at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, however, was not fulfilled for the time being, instead he began at the urging of his father, a mining study at the local Polytechnic.
Sein Wunsch, an der Münchner Kunstakademie zu studieren, erfüllte sich jedoch vorerst nicht, stattdessen begann er auf Drängen seines Vaters ein Bergbaustudium am dortigen Polytechnikum.