He began his art studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, but stayed for only a year, then switched to the Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler, where he studied under the supervision of P.S. Krøyer. It was there he became friends with Vilhelm Hammershøi and took photographs that became the basis for some of Hammershøi's early paintings. He was, in fact, one of the earli...