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... he travelled to Volenga on a research assignment for the Society for Natural Science, Ethnography and Anthropology. His target was to record the local peasant laws and the non-Christian religion of the people of the original Syria. He found colourful culture, in the decorative houses and folk clothes and costumes. He studied the culture of the folk art of Northern Russia, as well as the Finnish Zyrians. During this time he also visited Paris. In Paris he met Paul Gauguin, and came in a contact with neoimpressionism and fauvism. From 1897 to 1900 he attended the private school run by Anton Azbč. In 1900 he transferred to the Munich Academy to study under the teaching of Franz von Stuck. From 1903 his work was shown throughout Europe, and gained criticism from art critics, the public and his fellow artists. During 1907 and 1098 he visited Murnau, and met Alexei ...