Artist: Asger Jorn (1914 - 1973)
Nationality: Danish
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Danish artist, Asger Jorn worked in Paris for most of his career. He was skilled in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpting, printmaking, ceramics, design, and writing. In 1948, he was a co-founder of the Cobra Group. Colorful abstraction and harsh brushstrokes were characteristic features of his work.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (3)
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Asger Jorn untitled, plate on pp. 44-45 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]) color lithograph 1964
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Asger Jorn untitled, plate on pp. 164-65 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]) color lithograph 1964
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© 2001 Fam. Jorn/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY/ COPY-DAN. COPENHAGEN ; Asger Jorn, Danish,

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (10)
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ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: Asger Jorn: A Retrospective
By establishing a dialogue between the many media ARKEN sheds new light on the artist this autumn. The juxtaposition of the many works shows on the one hand the playful, ironic Jorn, on the other the solemn and existential aspects in him. It will ...
State Hermitage Museum: The Past of the Present: Cobra and Contemporaries from the Stedelijk Museum
Artists Pierre Alechinksy, Karel Appel, Eugene Brands, Constant, Corneille, Lotti van der Gaag, Henry Heerup, Arne Jacobsen, Asger Jorn, Lucebert, Pieter Ouborg, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Anton Rooskens, Shinkici Tajiri, Theo Wolvecamp. Co...
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: Stop for a Moment: Painting as Presence
Purple and yellow, thick layers of paint, spindly serpentine lines, an intimate scene from a bedroom and poetic landscapes. These are some of the words one can append to the selection of works by contemporary Scandinavian artists shown at ARKEN un...
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: MAN - Body in Art from 1950 to 2000
The exhibition occupies the entire museum presenting 80 international artists’ depictions of the body from 1950 to the present day. Works by a number of Danish artists such as Asger Jorn and Michael Kvium, as well as internati...
Marziart Internationale Galerie: January 2006: Jenny Page, Carol Byrne, Marc Deeleman, Jorn Ladegaard, Carmen Sanzsoto
Jenny Page comments about her own oil poantings, "Since an early age, artistic expression has been a natural form of communication for me. The creative environment provided to me by my parents,has nurtured me in the appreciation and love of art in...
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: Henry Heerup: Faith, Hope and Charity
Heerup’s œuvre is unique in its both popular and experimental idiom. In a plain-spoken and direct language he addresses the big issues through subjects and materials from nature and his own everyday. His pictures of family life and erotic love re...
Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art: The Happy Face of Globalization
In an homage to the twentieth-century avantgarde tradition, some of the prime examples of which found an outlet in Albisola, the exhibition presents, along with the works of the invited artists, a selection of works in ceramics produced by ...
Sprengel Museum: Cloudcatcher: Horst Antes and the Shift in Painting during the 1960s
Antes developed his figure in the post-war years, a period in which abstraction had been largely accepted as the international art idiom. While the figurative was being vigorously purged from the picture, Antes worked obsessively...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Cobra: Copenhagen Brussels Amsterdam
The name Cobra was coined in 1948 by the Belgian poet Christian Dotremont from the three cities where the main participants lived: Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam. Explosively expressive, with an emphasis on myth and the untutored art of child...
Stedelijk Museum: Mapping the City
Two ideas are at the heart of the exhibition: the flâneur, a type first described by Charles Baudelaire around 1850, and the activity of dérive, a practice coined by French philosopher and Situationist Guy Debord. The flâneur, a detached observer ...

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