他的父母都是店主。在十四岁时，他跟随师父学习绘画。

他没有赢得任何更多的官方认可他的工作很快就促使他转向绘画。他在1833年举行了他的第一个展览，经过一些非常简短的培训。他的一个受伤的士兵的画给他带来了一些奖金，并很快被购买。它后来被广泛转载; 特别是在由雕刻卡尔·爱德华Sonne酒店。

由1834，由于无法重现此初步成功，他要求从枢密院尼古拉霍尔滕（1775年至1850年），谁最近买了他一直无法出售的祭坛后，那些谁下令改变了主意贷款。贷款给予它使他花两年时间在慕尼黑，在那里他传来的影响下美术学院和发达的友谊与艺术家那里。

他很快就找到了他的作品的买家; 地主和商人以及外国艺术品收藏家。到1837年，他是足够宽裕送回家他的未婚妻和结婚。在接下来的几年里，他前往蒂罗尔州，意大利北部和阿尔及尔。 由此产生的作品获得的王室购买的巴伐利亚和符腾堡州和皇家收藏在哥本哈根。

1842年，他成为了慕尼黑学院的成员，并提供了一个教授，而是选择了采取从国王类似的报价基督教第八才回家; 任教于皇家科学院军事历史画他也继续着他的私立职业，从他到北非的访问得出的异国情调的作品是特别受欢迎。

从1848年到1851年，在一石勒苏益格战争中，他集中在大画布军事场面，其中一些被收购的皇家收藏。之后，他又回到流派的场景，并采取了前往瑞典，创造了主要工作象征丹麦和瑞典的和解经过多年苦争该岛的斯堪尼亚（“Trolovelse我Skaane”）。

1852年，他被评为了一个骑士的Dannebrog勋章，并从1854年至1883年，他是一个老师在Academys“示范学校。在过程中他再次集中于战斗画普丹战争，并成为会员艺术瑞典皇家科学院。他用钱做海外他最后一趟主要从“（罗马）Anckerske格兰特于1870年。”（作家，作曲家和艺术家基金）

His parents are the owners. At the age of fourteen, he studied painting with master.
He didn't win any more official recognition and his work soon prompted him to turn to painting. He held his first exhibition in 1833, after some very brief training. The painting of one of his wounded soldiers brought him some money and was soon bought. It was later widely reproduced; especially in the hotel by Carle Sonne Edward.
By 1834, due to the inability to reproduce this initial success, he asked from the Privy Council (1775 to 1850) Nicola Holten, who recently bought he has been unable to sell the altar, those who ordered the loan changed his mind. The loan gave it to him to spend two years in Munich, where he came under the influence of Academy of Fine Arts and developed friendships with artists there.
He soon found the buyer of his works; the landlord and the merchant as well as the foreign art collector. By 1837, he was well enough to send his fiancee and get married. In the next few years, he traveled to Tyrol, north of Italy and Algiers. The resulting [1] works of the Royal Bavaria and buy wvrttemberg and the Royal Collection in Copenhagen.

In 1842, he became a member of the Munich academy, and offered a professor, but instead chose to take a similar offer from the king of Christianity before returning home to eighth; taught at the Royal Academy of military history. [1] he also continues his private career, from his visit to North Africa, the exotic work is particularly popular.
From 1848 to 1851, in Schleswig war, he concentrated on large canvas military scenes, some of which was acquired by the Royal collection. Later, he returned to the school scene, and taken to Sweden, created the main work symbol of Denmark and Sweden and after years of bitter struggle of the island of Scania ("Trolovelse Skaane").
In 1852, he was named a knight of the Dannebrog medal, and from 1854 to 1883, he was a teacher at Academys "model school. In the process he again focused on fighting painting art and became a member of the Danish war, the Royal Swedish Academy of sciences. He spent his last overseas trip mainly from "(Rome) Anckerske Grant in 1870." Fund for writers, composers and artists