Peter Alfred Schou

Originally, he chose to follow his father into business and attended a trade school.

From 1865, he looked after his family's interests in Hamburg but, possibly inspired by his older brother's death in 1867, he began to spend his summers attending classes at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.

[1] The following year, a work of his was rejected by the censorship committee for the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition and he went back to Hamburg.

As a result of his experience at Charlottenborg, he established the "Aktclub", a venue where artists could paint nude models without academic constraints.

[4] In 1911, he was awarded the Anckers Scholarship (Det anckerske Legat) grant for composers, writers and artists.