 When asked about this in an interview, he said, “Until then art had been an external acquisition; [but now it] became more of a quest.” It was around this time that he was hired as a short-term replacement at the school of fine arts.Just like his abstract work, Bischoff achieved great success with his early figurative works.Bischoff entered his painting "Figure and Red Wall" in the Fifth Annual Oil and Sculpture Exhibition at the Richmond Art Center and won the $200 first prize for it.