This trip determined the course of his future development. Thereafter, he returned to Paris intermittently from 1926 to 1939; it was in Paris that Ivanisevic first began to paint.
Completing his studies in French language and comparative literature in 1930, Ivanisevic traveled to Italy, where he attended lectures in Rome and Florence. The next year he attended the University of Munich, then moved to Padova, where he continued his work in comparative literature, focusing on Latin, Spanish, Russian, and Czech studies. In 1931 his work culminated in a doctoral thesis on Dante Alighieri, "La fortuna di Dante nella letteratura serbocroata" (Dante's Fate in Serbo-Croatian Literature). By the end of 1932 he had also completed his army service in Mostar, where he befriended Antun Motika, a professor of Surrealist art, benefiting greatly from his association with a man who had a keen artistic sensibility and a professional knowledge of art.
Back in Zagreb in 1933, the poet spent several years as a high-school teacher and continued to publish his work in Hrvatska revija (Croatian Review), Savremenik (Contemporary), and Dani i ljudi (Days and People), the best literary journals of the period. From 1936 to 1938 he resided again in Paris, where he devoted his time to the three loves of his life: poetry, painting, and theater--probably in that order.
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