 In March 1919 he returned to Antwerp and started a painting studio.In 1939 he confirmed himself as a painter of historic events with the almost 5 meter wide painting of "Saint Willibrordus explaining the bible to the people living on the shores of the river Scheld around 700 AD".This painting can be admired in the church of the Holy Heart in the Lange Beeldekensstraat 18 in Antwerp.