Godfred Christensen

After a short time at the Copenhagen Technical College, he enrolled at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and studied there until 1867.

Kiærskou and, in 1865, was awarded the Neuhausen Prize (De Neuhausenske Præmier) for his painting A Freestanding Beechwood.

The following year, he received the Neuhausen Prize again for one of the paintings he produced there: Landscape with Lush Foreground.

This honor resulted in a travel stipend from the Academy that enabled him to visit Germany and Italy, beginning in 1873.

[2][5] Upon his return in 1875, he held an exhibition of works he had created in Capri and Rome.