 In 1909, Petraşcu studied philosophy at the Bestuzhev Institute (otherwise known as the Bestuzhev Courses) after which she travelled to Munich and enrolled at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 1910.At the Munich Academy, she worked under the direction of leading Avantgarde artists such as Kandinsky and von Jawlensky and came into contact with the creative team of the "Jugend" magazine.After her stay in Munich, Petrascu spent several years in Paris working in the studios of Henri Matisse and Antoine Bourdelle (19101914).