 After the college became the Royal Academy of Arts and Crafts in 1922, he studied under the guidance of Ivan Meštrović until his graduation in 1924.He then received a scholarship from the French government and continued his studies at the "École des Arts Décoratifs" and "École des Beaux-Arts" in Paris under the guidance of Jean Antoine Injalbert.In 1925 and 1926 Augustinčić held his first exhibitions in Paris, before returning to Zagreb and exhibiting in Zagreb in 1926 and then again in 1927 in Lwów and Zagreb.