sentences:  After graduating, he entered the Școala de Belle Arte in Iași, where he studied with and Gheorghe Popovici.In 1915, he received an award from the Academia Română for his portrait of the French artist Lecomte de Nöuy, who was then living in Romania.During World War I, he was mobilized but, at the last moment, was sent to the rear, where he joined several other artists who were documenting the war.