His works of art included paintings, lithographs, stone sculptures, linoleum cuts and drawings as well as objects which he composed from scrap.
He studied painting under Axel Jørgensen and Einar Nielsen at the Royal Danish Academy of Art.
1967) by writer and director Jens Jørgen Thorsen focused on Henry Heerup's garden and studio in Rødovre.
[4] On his death in 1993, Henry Heerup was interred in the Assistens Cemetery in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen.
Heerup Museum was designed by the architect Bernd Kjelland as an extension to the old farm Rødovregaard in Rødovre.