Early Life, Family and Training Born in Copenhagen on 22 March 1872, Marie Sandholt was raised within a well-to-do family. She was the daughter of the physician Peter Boll Wivet Sandholt and Louise Victoria Aagaard. Her upbringing provided the stability necessary for her to pursue a formal education in the arts, a path that would eventually lead her away from the domestic expectations of her era. Her formal training began at the Tegne…