 In 1937 he attended artillery officer's school, had an exhibition in Craiova with the writer Ion Ionescu; the latter presented his novel "Oameni cu buche" ("Men with books" / "Literate men").That year, he also began to sketch designs for women's clothing and fashion accessories for a Bucharest fashion house.He worked for the construction company SONACO, became a member of Sindicatul Artistilor din România (the Union of Romanian Artists, which included painters, sculptors and graphic artists) and because a student at the well-known private art seminar "Zapan".