Born in
Copenhagen, he studied under
Axel Revold at the
Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts from 1927 to 1929, and then under
Paul Klee and
Wassily Kandinsky at
Bauhaus Dessau from 1930 to 1931. He was a
Surrealist painter, and agitated for the style in several publications. He influenced several painters, including
Karen Holtsmark,
Bjarne Rise and
Johannes Rian. He lived in Sweden from 1944. He died of heart disease at the hospital in Halmstad, Sweden in 1957 at the age of 47. ==Works==