他的父亲是一个良好的待办事项造船。在幼年时，他开始在艺术学校接受绘画课奥胡斯和，1875年至1879年，就读于美术皇家科学院与尼尔斯·西蒙森和朱利叶斯·埃克斯纳。1882年，他花了一些时间罗马和卡普里然后，次年，访问了巴黎，在那里他的工作室工作威廉·阿道夫·布格罗。

1889年，他去了阿尔及利亚。三年后，他前往希腊，在那里他是国王的客人乔治一世，谁是丹麦。在那里，他也做了皇室的肖像。之后，他访问了埃及和西班牙。

他的旅行制作了大量的速写，成为他提出在一些国际展览的画作。他的大部分景观，然而，致力于斯堪的纳维亚半岛。他在德国，他在举行的几个节目特别受欢迎Glaspalast在慕尼黑。在他的晚年，他在瑞士花了大量时间和整个地中海旅行。他的作品大多是私人收藏。1995年，一个大型回顾展，被称为“北方之光”，隆重举行法兰克福。

His father is a good to-do shipbuilding. At an early age, he began taking art classes at art school in Aarhus and, from 1875 to 1879, attended the Royal Academy of fine arts with Niels Simonsen and Julius Exner. In 1882, he spent some time in Rome and Capri then, the following year, visited Paris, where his studio worked for William Adolf Bouguerea.
In 1889, he went to Algeria. Three years later, he went to Greece, where he was the king's guest of George I, who was denmark. There, he also made a portrait of the Royal family. Later, he visited Egypt and spain.
His travel produced a large number of sketches, as he put forward in some international exhibition of paintings. Most of his landscape, however, is committed to scandinavia. He was in Germany, where he held several programs in particular popular Glaspalast in Munich. In his later years, he spent a lot of time traveling in Switzerland and the mediterranean. Most of his works are in private collections. In 1995, a large retrospective exhibition, known as the "light of the north", was held in Frankfurt.