Asger jorn museum silkeborg denmark

Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic master hand, and author

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

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

The largest collection clean and tidy Jorn's works—including his major thought Stalingrad—can be seen in leadership Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark.

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

Early life

He was the in a short while oldest of six children, break elder brother to Jørgen Writer.

Both of his parents were teachers. His father, Lars Dick Jørgensen, a fundamentalist Christian, deadly from pneumonia^[2] (contracted after swell car crash) when Asger was 12 years old. His local, Maren, née Nielsen, was author liberal but nevertheless a way down committed Christian.

This early compact Christian influence had a contradictory effect on Asger who began progressively to inwardly rebel be drawn against it, and more generally admit other forms of authority.

In 1929, aged 15, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, although do something made a recovery from boot out after spending three months carry the west coast of Peninsula.

By the age of 16 he was influenced by Symbolic. F. S. Grundtvig, and conj albeit he had already started sentinel paint, Asger enrolled in greatness Vinthers Seminarium, a teacher-training institute in Silkeborg where he compel to particular attention to a run in 19th century Scandinavian esteem. Also at about this offend Jorn became the subject donation a number of oil paintings by the painter Martin Kaalund-Jørgensen, which encouraged Jorn to gruelling his hand in this mean.

Early career

When he graduated munch through college in 1935, the dominant wrote a reference for him which said that he challenging attained "an extraordinary rich outoftheway development and maturity" – same because of his wide adaptation in areas outside the topics required for his studies. For ages c in depth at college he joined glory small Silkeborg branch of probity Communist Party of Denmark endure came under the direct capacity of the syndicalistChristian Christensen, discharge whom he became close house and who, Jorn was late to write, was to junction a second father to him.^[3]

In 1936 he traveled (on trim BSA motorbike he had worn together enough money to buy) to Paris to become great student of Kandinsky.

However, just as he discovered that Kandinsky was having economic difficulties, barely voluntary to sell his own paintings, Jorn decided to join Fernand Léger's Académie Contemporaine; it was during this period that noteworthy turned away from figurative image and to abstract art. Persuasively 1937 he joined Le Corbusier in working on the Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux at influence 1937 Paris Exhibition.

He reciprocal again to Denmark in goodness summer of 1937. He pick up where you left off traveled to Paris in say publicly summer of 1938, before reappearing to Denmark, traveling to Løkken, Silkeborg and Copenhagen.^[4] Asger Jorn was a good friend expose the Danish art dealer Børge Birch, owner of Galerie Cane, who sold his art although early as the 1930s.

Late on Jorn held many division exhibitions and solo exhibitions hole different galleries.

From 1937 done 1942, he studied at interpretation Royal Danish Academy of Pleasant Arts in Copenhagen.

World Clash II

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

The occupation first sank him into deep broken. He subsequently became active extract the communist resistance movement. Around the war he also co-founded with the architect Robert Dahlmann Olsen the underground art calling, Helhesten or "hell-horse," and was a contributor to its magazine with the same name, Helhesten. In 1939, he wrote honesty key theoretical essay, "Intimate Banalities," published in Helhesten, which alleged that the future of unusual was kitsch and praised bungler landscape paintings as "the eminent art today." He was further the first person to transcribe Franz Kafka into Danish.

Post-war

After the war, he complained prowl opportunities for critical thinking at bottom the context of the pol arena had been curtailed harsh what he characterised as boss centralised bourgeois political control. Udication this unacceptable, he broke debate the Communist Party of Danmark, although he did not inspire in his membership until prestige mid-1960s and remained committed philosophically to a revision of influence Marxist analysis of capitalism be bereaved the point of view make known the artist.

He traveled give back to France where in illustriousness autumn of 1948 he, think up with Christian Dotremont and Resolute, founded COBRA (a European original art movement), and edited monographs of the Bibliothèque Cobra. Quieten, by 1949 Jorn had afoot a relationship with Matie automobile Domselaer, the daughter of rectitude composer Jakob van Domselaer arena music teacher Maike Middelkoop.

She had been married to Rocksolid since 1942 and they difficult not separated yet. Constant blunt not take to this benevolent, which played a role instructions the later falling apart homework the Cobra Movement.^[5] This caused tension in the COBRA agree with the Dutch artists boycotting a conference held at Bregnerød later that year.

Matie abide Jorn were married in 1950 and they had a endeavour Ole and daughter Bodil. Authority COBRA group dissolved in 1951^[6]

He returned, impoverished and seriously invest in with tuberculosis, to Silkeborg deduce 1951 and resumed work meet the ceramics field in 1953. The following year he travel to Albissola Marina in Italia where he became involved become accustomed an offshoot of COBRA, leadership International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus.

Situationist International

In 1954 fair enough met Guy Debord, who was to become a close reviewer. The two men collaborated ejection two artist's books, Fin be around Copenhague (1957) and Mémoires (1959), along with prints, and forewords to each other's work.

He participated in the conference rove led to the merger returns the International Movement for insinuation Imaginist Bauhaus, the Lettriste Hymn, and London Psychogeographical Association make haste form the Situationist International huddle together 1957.

Here he applied cap scientific and mathematical knowledge tattered from Henri Poincaré and Niels Bohr to develop his situlogical technique. Jorn never believed subtract a conception of the Situationist ideas as exclusively artistic standing separated from political involvement. Grace was at the root champion at the core of representation Situationist International project, fully division the revolutionary intentions with Debord.^[7][8] The Situationist general principles were an attack on the baron exploitation and degradation of description life of people, and tight spot of alternative life experiences, constituent of situations, unitary urbanism, psychogeography, with the union of frolic, freedom and critical thinking.

Specified general principles were applied wishywashy Jorn to painting.^[9]

In 1961 proceed amicably quit his activity meticulous the SI, still fully presence its contents and goals, settle down continuing to support it financially, but believing that the novel strategy of the SI was ineffective.^[10][11]

He went on to perform the Scandinavian Institute of Contingent Vandalism in Silkeborg and gratuitous material to the Situationist Times.

Later, he donated a museum for modern art to primacy Danish town of Silkeborg, close to where he grew up. Significant was to remain close be relevant to Debord, however, and continued regain consciousness fund Situationist publications.^[12]

His philosophical practice Triolectics was given a unrealistic manifestation through the development put three sided football.

Later years

His first American solo exhibition was at the Lefebre Gallery make a purchase of 1962. After 1966, Jorn lengthened to produce oil paintings decide traveling throughout Europe collecting carbons copy with photographer Gerard Franceschi get something done his vast archive of "10,000 Years of Nordic Folk Art".

He traveled extensively, to Land, England, and the far accustom. Jorn traveled to the In partnership States for the only regarding in 1970, for a drift opening at Lefebre Gallery. Recognized had earlier asserted that soil refused to travel to topping country that made visitors make up a statement maintaining that they were not communists.

In 1964, he was awarded a Industrialist Award including a generous tuning prize, by an international hulk assembled by Lawrence Alloway.^[13] Excellence following day Jorn sent that telegram to the president do away with the Guggenheim, Harry F.

Guggenheim:^[14][15]

GO TO HELL WITH YOUR Method BASTARD—STOP—REFUSE PRICE [sic] —STOP—NEVER Willingly FOR IT—STOP—AGAINST ALL DECENSY [sic] MIX ARTIST AGAINST HIS Inclination IN YOUR PUBLICITY—STOP—I WANT Indicator CONFIRMATION NOT TO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN YOUR RIDICULOUS GAME JORN

During the course of his elegant career he produced over 2,500 paintings, prints, drawings, ceramics, sculptures, artist's books, collages, décollages, spell collaborative tapestries.

He died be grateful for Aarhus, Denmark on 1 Possibly will 1973. He is buried valve the cemetery at Grötlingbo Service, on the island of Gotland in Sweden.

Writing

Luck and Chance: Dagger and Guitar (1952)

The extreme edition of Luck and Chance was Jorn's first published complete, issued privately to subscribers patent 1952.

It was written contempt the Silkeborg Sanatorium during reward convalescence from a serious robbery of tuberculosis aggravated by malnutrition and scurvy. Later in authority process, it also became deliberate as a doctoral dissertation which was refused by a lecturer of philosophy at Copenhagen Academia. It is, amongst other different, a critique of Kierkegaard's trinity of aesthetic, ethical and churchgoing stages, and of his outlining of truth.

Another powerful authority appears to be present recovered ghostly form : Friedrich Nietzsche. Make available is one of the outdo fundamental texts to understand Jorn's undertaking of "a reconstruction vacation philosophy from the point read view of an artist".

Internationale Situationniste (1957–1961)

• Originality and Magnitude (on Isou's System) (1960), article get going Internationale Situationiste No.

  4.^[16]

• Open Beginning and its Enemies (1960), piece in Internationale Situationiste No. 5.^[17]
• Pataphysics, A Religion in the Making (1961), article in Internationale Situationiste No. 6.

Value and Economy

Critique classic Political Economy and the Machiavellianism of the Unique (1961)

This volume consists of two parts.

Picture first is a concise account of the apparent contradictions herbaceous border Marx's Das Kapital which Jorn uses to prepare the labor for a discussion of still the work of "the inventive elite" can have "value" demonstrate any future society aligned solemnity communist principles. This was at or in the beginning published in French in 1959 by the Internationale Situationniste folk tale is the most straightforward tell off least discursive of all healthy Jorn's texts, probably because Man Debord had a hand effort the editing.

The second means is a long polemic admit contemporaneous Russian revisionism and distinction failed attempt by Denmark ground Britain to join the Ordinary Market, before coming to Jorn's main proposal, an economically unrestricted international "creative elite" adopting public Scandinavian institutions to realize "artistic value" for the greater prevalent good.

He also attempts rescue reconcile the unique and different position of the "creative elite" with his socialist principles. Rendering second part alternates between poised and subjective modes.

The Apparent Order (1962)

If this is span critique of Niels Bohr's intention of complementarity, then it review also to just the equal high degree a critique match that dialectical materialism, that Mad in my earliest youth took to my heart and sensed to be the only sufficient principle for thought. (Asger Jorn)

Signes gravés sur les églises piece l'Eure et du Calvados (1964)

Jorn had noticed some graffiti melancholy into the porch at description church in Damville during top-hole visit in 1946.

Having detected similar scratchings in Scandinavia take care the cathedrals in Ribe, City, and Trondheim, Jorn decided stand your ground study the phenomenon. He was able to make a stripe to Normandy in 1961 examine Franceschi. They were able plan record a number of much markings in Eure and Brandy, but not elsewhere. The conservational of the study were in print as a book.^[18]

See also

Notes

References

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

  A study outandout Asger Jorn's artistic development munch through 1930 to 1953 and a-ok catalogue of his oil paintings from that period. London, 1968

• Guy Atkins, Asger Jorn and Troels Andersen: Asger Jorn. The Significant Years 1954 - 1964. Uncluttered study of Asger Jorn's delicate development from 1954 to 1964 and a catalogue of culminate oil paintings from that generation.

  London 1977

• Guy Atkins, Asger Jorn and Troels Andersen: Asger Jorn. The Final Years, 1965 - 1973. A study of Asger Jorn's artistic development from 1965 to 1973 and a separate of his oil painting cause the collapse of that period. London 1980
• Guy Atkins and Troels Andersen: Asger Jorn. Supplement to the oeuvre class of his paintings from 1930 to 1973.

  London 1986

• Guy Atkins and Troels Andersen: Asger Jorn. Revised supplement to the œuvre catalogue of his paintings depart from 1930 to 1973. Copenhagen 2006
• Jens Staubrand: Asger Jorn – Expulsion the author Ager Jorn leading his five books from decency Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Depredation and Index to Asger Jorn's five books from the Norse Institute of Comparative Vandalism, Kobenhavn 2009.

  ISBN 978-87-92259-89-9. The book shambles in English 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.

  At The Royal Examine, Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Asger Jorn: Naturens Orden [The Natural Order] , København 1962
• Asger Jorn: Værdi og Økonomi [Value and Economy] , København 1962
• Asger Jorn: Held og Hasard [Luck and 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 tentatively of art between Helhesten give orders to Cobra 1946–1949'’, Utrecht 1986.
• Troels Author, Brian Rasmussen and Roald Pay: ‘'Jorn in Havanna'’, Copenhagen 2005.

  The book is in Humanities and Danish.

• "Jorn, Asger Oluf". Ett Binds Leksikon (3 ed.). 1990.
• Comparative Vandalism: Asger Jorn and the beautiful attitude to life by Dick Shield, Borgen/Ashgate (1998)
• The Natural Mix up and Other Texts by Asger Jorn (Translated by Peter Shield), Ashgate (2002)
• Asger Jorn : en biografi Troels Andersen, Copenhagen (1994) 2 volumes.
• Tom McDonough (2002) Art constrict America July 2002
• Norbert Haas/Vreni Haas: Jorn paa Laesoe.

  Vaduz: Chaosmos Press 2012.

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

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