 For this purpose, said Ažbe, Wolf entrusted Ažbe with the "secret" of his art.It is not clear how much of the "Wolf's myth" is real; the "great Slovene painter" did not emerge and Ažbe complained that all Slovene students, apart from faithful Matej Sternen, were leaving the school too early, preferring absolute freedom to the benefits of professional training.In 1892 Vesel and Rihard Jakopič offered Ažbe the informal job of examining and correcting the students' paintings.