however, as Raúl Lozza would say: "the gradual decline in domestic relationships began. When we were born, we lived a small palace designed by my father. Some time later, my mother began to experience several imaginary illnesses, which, little by little, unbalanced her mental stability. Usury stripped us off that property, our birthplace, and this painful experience undermined my father’s morale, detaching him from every artistic activity except for the eventual organization of an orchestral group and the staging of some theatre pieces. During one school year my father and I lived on our own in the nearby city of Chivilcoy. In all likelihood, this trip represented an effort with a view to normalizing the marital relationship. It was all in vain. Before long, my mother was permanently confined to her bed due to a series of psychosomatic disorders, just a step away from insanity. She was sent to a nursing home in Buenos Aires, from which she escaped. At that time I was eight years old, and my bothers were six and four respectively".

It was as of that time that Rafael Lozza (view image) committed himself to building a lyrical theatre, "resembling the Scala de Milan theatre," he said. When the construction was completed, a flash of lightening burnt the curtain he had decorated, as well as the chairs he had manufactured and the pictures he had painted. Eventually, the work was finished. Nowadays, it is the Rome Theatre of Alberti, but Rafael ended up in debt and in bad health. He shot himself in the head on September 21st, 1923. The three Lozza brothers, now fatherless, and whose mother was hospitalized in an asylum, were left in the care of an aunt Amalia Righeti, who was in charge of their education and taught them the first arts of painting. 
The Lozza brothers (view image) opened a workshop in the big house, today known as the Grandparents’ House in Alberti, and ran the first exhibition in 1928 with reproductions by the Classics, especially from the Renaissance. The brothers proved to be excellent draftsmen. They were sent to Buenos Aires, with a letter of recommendation addressed to Hipólito Irigoyen, who was at that time the President of Argentina. The letter requested that the three young men should be granted a scholarship and sent to Italy to complete their studies in plastic arts. However, they could never set off on that trip. That same year the Military overthrew Irigoyen and a period of persecution and suffering began for the Lozza brothers, who almost starved to death and forced to escape from guest houses, managed to survive by painting portraits and landscapes in exchange for food. At the same time, in the big city, the three brothers got in touch with important figures in the field of the Arts. Raúl recited poetry of his authorship in Parque Lezica and, simultaneously, he began his career as an illustrator making drawings of social and antifascist content in the different media of the time. Obdulio, in turn, was studying painting with Lino Eneas Spilimbergo,