After spending a year traveling by foot to visit the museums in Vienna, Dresden, Leipzig, and Munich, he returned home.

[2] Some of the statues of Medrea depict well-known personalities, such as Aristide Demetriade [ro] in the role Hamlet (1919, at the National Theatre Bucharest), Avram Iancu (1927, at Câmpeni), Ovid (1927, Șoseaua Kiseleff, Bucharest), Ioan Rațiu [ro] (1929, Turda), Andrei Mureșanu (1932, Bistrița), Vasile Lucaciu (1932, Satu Mare).

[3] He also sculpted busts of Molière and Victor Hugo (1919, National Theatre Bucharest), Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea (1920, Șoseaua Kiseleff), Ștefan Octavian Iosif (one from 1926 at Brașov and the other at Cișmigiu Gardens in Bucharest), Traian Lalescu (1930, Timișoara), Mihai Eminescu (1938, Giurgiu), Gheorghe Lazăr (1938, Avrig), Vasile Nașcu (1947 and 1967, Năsăud),[4] George Coșbuc (1956, Năsăud),[5] Elena Cernei (1962, private collection), and Margareta Pâslaru (1962, Suțu Palace, Bucharest).

Together with Ion Jalea he sculpted in 1923 the Monument of the CFR heroes (which stands in front of the Bucharest North railway station),[6] and in 1930 the bas-reliefs surrounding the dome of the Mausoleum of Mărășești.

[1] The Museum of Bucharest Municipality (located in the Suțu Palace) houses the "Cornel Medrea Collection," which was developed through a series of donations.