After graduation, he spent two years as a tutor to the daughters of Count Friedrich von Perponcher-Sedlnitzky [de], during which time he travelled to Dresden, Vienna, Venice, Munich, Nuremberg and Merano.

The problem stemmed from his participation in the "Group of Eleven", an association of artists dedicated to promoting their own exhibitions of what was then considered "radical" art, free of the academy's influence.

In 1898, he served as one of the judges in a contest held by Ludwig Stollwerck to select the artists for a new series of trading cards.

In 2016 Skarbina's Nach Hause was the object of a lawsuit filed by a Holocaust victim's son who was trying to locate the painting.

David Toren requested that the Berlin auction house Villa Grisebach reveal the buyers of the Skarbina as well as two works by Beckmann.