Giacometti enrolled in the Evangelical School in Schiers in 1915, where he continued to paint in a tiny private studio. Later, he enrolled in Geneva's Ecole des Arts Industriels, where he studied painting, drawing, and sculpture under Pointillist painter David Estoppey and sculptor Maurice Sarkissoff. During this time, he also attended classes at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, where he learned techniques from realists such as Jean-Paul Laurens and Pierre Le Bas. In 1919, Giacometti returned to Switzerland and began teaching drawing and anatomy at the Schiers school. He also took on some administrative duties there. In 1920, he became an assistant professor at the Académie de Lausanne and continued to teach there until 1925. That same year, he was appointed chair of sculpture at the Beaux-Arts Institute in Brussels. In 1926, he returned to Switzerland and assumed a professorship at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich. The following year, he married Jeanne Hirschhorn. They had two children: a daughter named Aline and a son named Claude. In 1930, Giacometti moved to a larger apartment on Schellingstrasse in Zurich so that he could continue his work as a sculptor. That same year, he was awarded the Gold Medal for Sculpture at the International Exhibition in Bologna.