He was the son of a butcher and grew up in Copenhagen in a lower middle class environment. After … See more

Petersen left about 60,000 drawings and 100 paintings of varied quality. His drawings are very often illustrated jokes, or series of a theme besides artist sketches. Among his favourite themes are the vagabonds – … See more

As an author, he wrote many short stories and tales, often parodies on detective stories or melodramas, small snap-shots from the Copenhagen lower middle class milieu, absurd and surrealistic tales or, especially, "… See more

Storm P. is also well known in Denmark as the author of a number of comic strips (titles in Danish):
• De tre små mænd og nummermanden ("The Three Small Men and the Number Man") 1913… See more