He first trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
He spent a few years in Norway, where he lived until 1928 and where he became interested in Norwegian landscape painting.
His paintings displayed the careful construction that characterized his work, for example in his landscapes of Gudhjem.
He painted the sea, with a high horizon, the coast, figures with precisely constructed silhouettes, or Bornholm’s steep cliffs.
He worked to release new expressive possibilities from oil colours and in this way further emphasized the luminous power and depth of the picture plane.