Akademie der Bildenden Künste Krakau
In the years 1877 to 1880, he took classes with Władysław Łuszczkiewicz at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Later, with Carl Wurzinger in Vienna, with Léon Bonnat in Paris, and with Alexander von Wagner at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He lived in Munich for twenty years. Up until 1901, he lived in Neu-Pasing near Munich, after which he moved to the United States of America in Milwaukee.