 Their chief spokesman was Johannes V. Jensen (1873-1950) who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930.In 1910, businessman Mads Rasmussen (1856-1916), who operated a successful cooperative canning factory in Faaborg, decided to start a museum for Funish Art next to his canning factory.He created the Faaborg Museum, which still exists, and gave the Funish painters a boost, both by making their works available to a broad public and by supporting them financially.