Born in Odsherred, Nr. Asmindrup in 1929.

Residence and studio: "Villa Aurora", Art exhibition and nature park of Moen.

Education: Engineer, construction. 

Autodidact painter with additional training by the painter C. Budtz - Møller.  

Works in oilpainting, aquarelle and collages, and has since his debute ind 1964 had several exhibitions as well in Denmark as in part of the rest of the world; among this Charlottenborg.

Knud P. wished to become an artist but his family insisted that he should learn something else at first - one could not make a living out of art!! so he got an apprenticeship as a craftsman and an education as a construction engineer. After this he was free to make his own decisions and has worked with his paintings ever since.

His great models are, and have always been, masters such as van Gogh, Karl Isakson, Edvard Munch and Olaf Hoest. Like every artist he ignites his light by another artist's fire. This is felt clearly in his early works, i.e. the inspiration he has received through these great artists, but without in any way loosing his own caratheristics. He stands for his own mysticism which radiates from all his works.

Like Munch and Hoest who on their strolls did not bring their painter's tools with them, but just opened their minds and filled themselves with artistic experience for the purpose of the later process of freeing themselves and making use of their observations, so is it also all in all with Knud P.

Normally he does not work face to face with his motive, but out of sediments in his mind. Based upon a richness of impressions, feelings and phantasy he reflects the spontaneous revelations that he receives from another world through psychic improvisations which the spectator feels in his mind and body. It is not an immediate observation or instantanous experience which is transformed into a picture but he draws out of a sum of impressions and experiences.

To this is to add that Knud P. also works with oil and indian ink on paper in which he with sensitivity, phantasy and warmth gives expression for some messages and problems - personal ones as well as those which are in the debate of the time.

Knud P. may have a work stored for a long period and then suddenly add or change a detail and create a new effect either with his brushes or by adding new paint with his bare hands. On other occasions it may be rejected and painted all over for a fresh start ready to receive new impressions of the nature, people or animals in his surroundings. Regardles of the means and techniques, however, they will always point to this strange picture base in man which transforms the adventure and experience of life into metaphysic visions which reason refuses or wisely will overlook.