Early Life, Family and Training Emanuel Petersen was born on February 18, 1894, in Frederiksberg. He grew up in a household shaped by the faith of his parents, Hans Nicolai Petersen, a Catholic-Apostolic pastor, and Else Marie Jensen. His early years were marked by a search for a vocation that would eventually lead him away from the technical and toward the visual. His path toward art was not a straight line. He initially began an ap…