 After being mustered out in 1918, he returned to Elberfeld.In 1919, he resumed his studies; first with Walther Klemm at the "Hochschule für Bildende Künste" in Weimar then, in 1921, with Lyonel Feininger at the Bauhaus.Upon completing his studies, he moved to Sommerhausen, near Würzburg, where he was married in 1923 to Mathilde Schwarz.