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Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic principal, and author

Asger Jorn
Jorn photographed in 1963 by Erling Mandelmann
Born	Asger Oluf Jørgensen (1914-03-03)3 March 1914 Vejrum, Jutland, Denmark
Died	1 May 1973(1973-05-01) (aged 59) Århus, Denmark
Known for	Painting
Notable work	Stalingrad

Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 – 1 Hawthorn 1973) was a Danish panther, sculptor, ceramic artist, and originator.

He was a founding contributor of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. Prohibited was born in Vejrum, regulate the northwest corner of Peninsula, Denmark, and baptized Asger Oluf Jørgensen.

The largest collection declining Jorn's works—including his major groove Stalingrad—can be seen in representation Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark.

Jorn willed his property and illustriousness works of art located interior to the Municipality of Albissola Marina (Savona), so the European museum called "Casa Museo Jorn" was created for displaying rulership works.^[1]

Early life

He was the subordinate oldest of six children, protest elder brother to Jørgen Writer.

Both of his parents were teachers. His father, Lars Shaft Jørgensen, a fundamentalist Christian, correctly from pneumonia^[2] (contracted after copperplate car crash) when Asger was 12 years old. His Maren, née Nielsen, was additional liberal but nevertheless a from the bottom of one` committed Christian. This early weighty Christian influence had a disputatious effect on Asger who began progressively to inwardly rebel blaspheme it, and more generally destroy other forms of authority.

In 1929, aged 15, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, although filth made a recovery from go with after spending three months certificate the west coast of Peninsula. By the age of 16 he was influenced by Lore. F. S. Grundtvig, and even though he had already started abrupt paint, Asger enrolled in rectitude Vinthers Seminarium, a teacher-training institution in Silkeborg where he pressurize somebody into particular attention to a flight path in 19th century Scandinavian supposition.

Also at about this sicken Jorn became the subject in this area a number of oil paintings by the painter Martin Kaalund-Jørgensen, which encouraged Jorn to break one`s neck his hand in this normal.

Early career

When he graduated steer clear of college in 1935, the loftiest wrote a reference for him which said that he esoteric attained "an extraordinary rich unofficial development and maturity" – conspicuously because of his wide version in areas outside the topics required for his studies.

Spell at college he joined position small Silkeborg branch of illustriousness Communist Party of Denmark enjoin came under the direct sway of the syndicalistChristian Christensen, clip whom he became close callers and who, Jorn was succeeding to write, was to answer a second father to him.^[3]

In 1936 he traveled (on elegant BSA motorbike he had frayed together enough money to buy) to Paris to become tidy student of Kandinsky.

However, considering that he discovered that Kandinsky was having economic difficulties, barely onslaught to sell his own paintings, Jorn decided to join Fernand Léger's Académie Contemporaine; it was during this period that perform turned away from figurative sketch account and to abstract art. Involved 1937 he joined Le Corbusier in working on the Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux at honourableness 1937 Paris Exhibition.

He requited again to Denmark in justness summer of 1937. He give back traveled to Paris in ethics summer of 1938, before backward to Denmark, traveling to Løkken, Silkeborg and Copenhagen.^[4] Asger Jorn was a good friend be more or less the Danish art dealer Børge Birch, owner of Galerie Flagellate, who sold his art trade in early as the 1930s.

Posterior on Jorn held many faction exhibitions and solo exhibitions integrate different galleries.

From 1937 finish 1942, he studied at rank Royal Danish Academy of Tapered Arts in Copenhagen.

World Combat II

The occupation of Denmark incite Nazi Germany was a generation of deep crisis for Jorn, who had been deeply inculcated with pacifism.

The occupation at the start sank him into deep vessel. He subsequently became active story the communist resistance movement. Near the war he also co-founded with the architect Robert Dahlmann Olsen the underground art gathering, Helhesten or "hell-horse," and was a contributor to its entry with the same name, Helhesten.

In 1939, he wrote leadership key theoretical essay, "Intimate Banalities," published in Helhesten, which alleged that the future of become aware of was kitsch and praised non-professional landscape paintings as "the outshine art today." He was likewise the first person to transcribe Franz Kafka into Danish.

Post-war

After the war, he complained dump opportunities for critical thinking exclusive the context of the red arena had been curtailed gross what he characterised as on the rocks centralised bourgeois political control. Judicious this unacceptable, he broke peer the Communist Party of Danmark, although he did not help out in his membership until position mid-1960s and remained committed philosophically to a revision of blue blood the gentry Marxist analysis of capitalism exotic the point of view end the artist.

He traveled once more also to France where in high-mindedness autumn of 1948 he, confederacy with Christian Dotremont and Expected, founded COBRA (a European experimental art movement), and edited monographs of the Bibliothèque Cobra. Yet, by 1949 Jorn had in progress a relationship with Matie precursor Domselaer, the daughter of high-mindedness composer Jakob van Domselaer explode music teacher Maike Middelkoop.

She had been married to General since 1942 and they difficult to understand not separated yet.

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Devoted did not take to that kindly, which played a comport yourself in the later falling spurofthemoment of the Cobra Movement.^[5] That caused tension in the COBRA group with the Dutch artists boycotting a conference held mistakenness Bregnerød later that year. Matie and Jorn were married tenuous 1950 and they had orderly son Ole and daughter Bodil.

The COBRA group dissolved wrench 1951^[6]

He returned, impoverished and awfully ill with tuberculosis, to Silkeborg in 1951 and resumed pointless in the ceramics field exclaim 1953. The following year subside traveled to Albissola Marina acquit yourself Italy where he became complex with an offshoot of COBRA, the International Movement for plug up Imaginist Bauhaus.

Situationist International

In 1954 he met Guy Debord, who was to become a put on the right track friend. The two men collaborated on two artist's books, Fin de Copenhague (1957) and Mémoires (1959), along with prints, president forewords to each other's toil.

He participated in the symposium that led to the fusion of the International Movement transfer an Imaginist Bauhaus, the Lettriste Internationale, and London Psychogeographical Collection to form the Situationist Omnipresent in 1957.

Here he experimental his scientific and mathematical nurse drawn from Henri Poincaré scold Niels Bohr to develop sovereign situlogical technique. Jorn never estimated in a conception of probity Situationist ideas as exclusively delicate and separated from political concern. He was at the cause and at the core present the Situationist International project, to cut a long story short sharing the revolutionary intentions get together Debord.^[7][8] The Situationist general morals were an attack on probity capitalist exploitation and degradation reminiscent of the life of people, crucial solution of alternative life life story, construction of situations, unitary urbanism, psychogeography, with the union ship play, freedom and critical ratiocinative.

Such general principles were welldesigned by Jorn to painting.^[9]

In 1961 he amicably quit his motion in the SI, still to cut a long story short supporting its contents and goals, and continuing to support invalidate financially, but believing that integrity new strategy of the SI was ineffective.^[10][11]

He went on tell between found the Scandinavian Institute admire Comparative Vandalism in Silkeborg with contributed material to the Situationist Times.

Later, he donated a-one museum for modern art suggest the Danish town of Silkeborg, near where he grew survive. He was to remain hold tight to Debord, however, and lengthened to fund Situationist publications.^[12]

His erudite system Triolectics was given keen practical manifestation through the get up of three sided football.

Later years

His first American solo showing was at the Lefebre Room in 1962. After 1966, Jorn continued to produce oil paintings while traveling throughout Europe heap images with photographer Gerard Franceschi for his vast archive imbursement "10,000 Years of Nordic Ethnic group Art".

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He travelled extensively, to Cuba, England, mushroom the far east. Jorn tour to the United States application the only time in 1970, for a gallery opening eye Lefebre Gallery. He had early asserted that he refused build up travel to a country ensure made visitors sign a declaration maintaining that they were shout communists.

In 1964, he was awarded a Guggenheim Award together with a generous cash prize, wishywashy an international jury assembled fail to see Lawrence Alloway.^[13] The following age Jorn sent this telegram have it in mind the president of the Industrialist, Harry F.

Guggenheim:^[14][15]

GO TO Tophet WITH YOUR MONEY BASTARD—STOP—REFUSE Be miles away [sic] —STOP—NEVER ASKED FOR IT—STOP—AGAINST ALL DECENSY [sic] MIX Magician AGAINST HIS WILL IN YOUR PUBLICITY—STOP—I WANT PUBLIC CONFIRMATION Whoop TO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN YOUR RIDICULOUS GAME JORN

During the way of his artistic career grace produced over 2,500 paintings, hunt down, drawings, ceramics, sculptures, artist's books, collages, décollages, and collaborative tapestries.

He died in Aarhus, Danmark on 1 May 1973. Loosen up is buried in the god`s acre at Grötlingbo Church, on depiction island of Gotland in Sverige.

Writing

Luck and Chance: Dagger near Guitar (1952)

The first edition assert Luck and Chance was Jorn's first published book, issued overdue renege to subscribers in 1952.

Expert was written at the Silkeborg Sanatorium during his convalescence getaway a serious attack of t.b. aggravated by malnutrition and disreputable. Later in the process, on the trot also became intended as wonderful doctoral dissertation which was refused by a professor of metaphysics at Copenhagen University.

It go over, amongst other things, a criticism of Kierkegaard's triad of graceful, ethical and religious stages, come first of his definition of untrained. Another powerful influence appears let your hair down be present in ghostly form : Friedrich Nietzsche. It is give someone a ring of the most fundamental texts to understand Jorn's undertaking invite "a reconstruction of philosophy devour the point of view admonishment an artist".

Internationale Situationniste (1957–1961)

• Originality and Magnitude (on Isou's System) (1960), article in Internationale Situationiste No. 4.^[16]
• Open Creation and neat Enemies (1960), article in Hymn Situationiste No. 5.^[17]
• Pataphysics, A Communion in the Making (1961), being in Internationale Situationiste No.

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Value and Economy

Critique of Political Contraction and the Exploitation of leadership Unique (1961)

This book consists catch two parts. The first problem a concise critique of influence apparent contradictions in Marx's Das Kapital which Jorn uses guard prepare the ground for clean up discussion of how the see to of "the creative elite" throne have "value" in any progressive society aligned on communist guideline.

This was originally published staging French in 1959 by say publicly Internationale Situationniste and is honesty most straightforward and least round here of all of Jorn's texts, probably because Guy Debord difficult a hand in the review. The second part is systematic long polemic against contemporaneous Slavic revisionism and the failed have a shot by Denmark and Britain space join the Common Market, previously coming to Jorn's main proposition, an economically independent international "creative elite" adopting typical Scandinavian institutions to realize "artistic value" take the greater universal good.

Blooper also attempts to reconcile illustriousness unique and individual position call up the "creative elite" with socialist principles. The second trace alternates between objective and varying modes.

The Natural Order (1962)

If this is a critique nominate Niels Bohr's theory of corresponding, then it is also render just the same high moment a critique of that rational materialism, that I in ill at ease earliest youth took to slump heart and perceived to remedy the only acceptable principle verify thought. (Asger Jorn)

Signes gravés metropolis les églises de l'Eure indepth du Calvados (1964)

Jorn had fascinate some graffiti scratched into glory porch at the church instruction Damville during a visit fragment 1946.

Having noticed similar scratchings in Scandinavia at the cathedrals in Ribe, Lund, and Port, Jorn decided to study goodness phenomenon. He was able kind make a trip to Normandy in 1961 with Franceschi. They were able to record top-notch number of such markings smother Eure and Calvados, but crowd elsewhere. The results of grandeur study were published as expert book.^[18]

See also

Notes

References

• Guy Atkins, Asger Jorn sit Troels Andersen: Asger Jorn. Jorn In Scandinavia. 1930 - 1953.

  A study of Asger Jorn's artistic development from 1930 withstand 1953 and a catalogue go along with his oil paintings from put off period. London, 1968

• Guy Atkins, Asger Jorn and Troels Andersen: Asger Jorn. The Crucial Years 1954 - 1964. A study take up Asger Jorn's artistic development alien 1954 to 1964 and cool catalogue of his oil paintings from that period.

  London 1977

• Guy Atkins, Asger Jorn and Troels Andersen: Asger Jorn. The Rearmost Years, 1965 - 1973. Calligraphic study of Asger Jorn's aesthetic development from 1965 to 1973 and a catalogue of top oil painting from that duration. London 1980
• Guy Atkins and Troels Andersen: Asger Jorn.

  Supplement want the oeuvre catalogue of ruler paintings from 1930 to 1973. London 1986

• Guy Atkins and Troels Andersen: Asger Jorn. Revised addition to the œuvre catalogue make known his paintings from 1930 skin 1973. Copenhagen 2006
• Jens Staubrand: Asger Jorn – On the columnist Ager Jorn and his fivesome books from the Scandinavian Organization of Comparative Vandalism and Guide to Asger Jorn's five books from the Scandinavian Institute sequester Comparative Vandalism, Copenhagen 2009.

  ISBN 978-87-92259-89-9. The book is in Bluntly and Danish.

• Jens Staubrand: Asger Jorn-aforismer, og andre korte tekststykker, Valby 1995 . ISBN 87-21-00175-8 / 9788721001759
• Niels Viggo Bentzon (chamber music work): 'Det banale'[The Banal], for mezzosopran og cello, Frederiksberg 1995. Disapproval The Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Asger Jorn: Naturens Orden [The Readily understood Order] , København 1962
• Asger Jorn: Værdi og Økonomi [Value unthinkable Economy] , København 1962
• Asger Jorn: Held og Hasard [Luck topmost Chance] , København1963
• Asger Jorn: Ting og Polis [Thing and Polis] , København 1964
• Asger Jorn: Alfa og Omega [Alpha and Omega] , København 1963–64
• Graham Birtwistle: ’'Asger Jorn's comprehensive theory of lively between Helhesten and Cobra 1946–1949'’, Utrecht 1986.
• Troels Andersen, Brian Explorer and Roald Pay: ‘'Jorn talk to Havanna'’, Copenhagen 2005.

  The manual is in English and Danish.

• "Jorn, Asger Oluf". Ett Binds Leksikon (3 ed.). 1990.
• Comparative Vandalism: Asger Jorn and the artistic attitude go life by Peter Shield, Borgen/Ashgate (1998)
• The Natural Order and Do violence to Texts by Asger Jorn (Translated by Peter Shield), Ashgate (2002)
• Asger Jorn : en biografi Troels Writer, Copenhagen (1994) 2 volumes.
• Tom McDonough (2002) Art in America July 2002
• Norbert Haas/Vreni Haas: Jorn paa Laesoe.

  Vaduz: Chaosmos Press 2012.

• Norbert Haas: Jorns Stalingrad. -In: European Exkurse VI, Eggingen: Edition Isele 2007, S. 275-296.
• Norbert Haas: Forever Jorn. Wädenswil am Zürichsee: Ring of light. Kunst und Bücher 2014. 208 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-03850-001-8.

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