[1] He trained as a wood carver with his father before going to Copenhagen where he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1872.

At the same time working in the studios of Theobald Stein, Vilhelm Bissen and Jens Adolf Jerichau.

[1] He is best known for a number of statues and statuettes of young adults in a style influenced by Bertel Thorvaldsen and particularly by Jens Adolf Jerichau.

He also made decorative works for several large architectural projects, including the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.

[3] They are today exhibited in an extension to Mads Lerches Gård, a building from 1601 which houses the Østfyns Museer department of cultural history (Borgmestergården).