Publishes a two-volume work in French on El Greco’s youth. The Great Relief is unveiled at the National Gallery of Denmark, causing a scandal. Works on establishing a ‘Propaganda Bureau’ for Danish art aimed at cultural export

Campaigns for a museum dedicated to his art and collection. Purchases figures from classical antiquity

Major retrospective at Den Frie Exhibition Hall. Commissioned by the state of Denmark to make The Great Relief, which is carved in marble in Carrara, Italy over the years that follow

Turns down the offer of a position as professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Takes up permanent residence in the South of France

Purchases more works for his Old Collection of historical art, including icons, Italian drawings and Venetian paintings

Purchases a painting by El Greco and follows the artist’s path to Crete, Italy and Spain. Travels to Tunisia in 1914

Designs his second villa in Hellerup, today owned by the philanthropic association Realdania and currently the home of the artist Olafur Eliasson

Based in Paris

Marries the sculptor Edith Wilhelmine (Lautrup) Wessel. The couple part around 1928. Father to two daughters: Ingemor Gersemi and Anne-Mathilde (nicknamed Anse)