Education
After training as a painter at Copenhagen"s Technical School, Scharff attended Kristian Zahrtmann"s art school (1907–1909) where he met young talents including Vilhelm Lundstrøm, Jais Nielsen and Olaf Rude.
After training as a painter at Copenhagen"s Technical School, Scharff attended Kristian Zahrtmann"s art school (1907–1909) where he met young talents including Vilhelm Lundstrøm, Jais Nielsen and Olaf Rude.
As a student, he travelled to Berlin, Dresden and Paris. During the First World War, Scharff was involved in Grønningen, a new artists" cooperative with an interest in Cubism. His Cubist tendencies can clearly be seen in his Legende I (1911, Randers Kunstmuseum) and in a series of pictures depicting poultry (1917–1918) and representing harmony between man and nature.
In addition to his paintings, he decorated the students" residence Studentergaarden with frescoes (1943–1953), designed tapestries for Christiansborg (1951–1958) and created the curtain for Tivoli"s concert hall (1956).