Emanuel Aage Petersen was part of the group of 'painters of Greenland' so called because they painted the overwhelming landscape of Greenlandic nature on several occasions. During the mid nineteenth century a few Danish painters travelled to the unknown Greenland and used its landscape and people as motifs in their paintings, due to the curiousity that such a distant place aroused in Europeans. Aage Petersen travelled to Greemland on numerous occasions in the 1920s and 1940s, when travel was a little easier, capturing the extraordinary landscape of Greenland and the everyday life of the country's inhabitants.