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JORN Asger (JØRGENSEN Asger Oluf), 1914 Vejrum, Denmark - 1973 Århus, Denmark. Danish painter. |
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| 1929 | Moved
to Silkeborg, where he began to paint. |
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| 1937 | Designed
large decorations, in collaboration with Léger, for Le Corbusier's
Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux at the 1937 Paris World Fair. |
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| 1938 | First
solo-exhibition in Copenhagen of paintings full of imagery and fantastic
figures inspired by Ernst and Klee. |
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| 1941 | Co-founder
of the magazine 'Helhesten'. |
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| 1947 | Participated
at the Conference of the Surréalistes Révolutionnaires in Brussels. |
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| 1948 | Founded
the CoBrA Group, along with Appel, Constant, Corneille, Dotremont and
Noiret. |
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| 1949 | First
large CoBrA exhibition at the Stedelijk Museums, Amsterdam. |
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| 1959 | Participation
in documenta 2 in Kassel. |
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| 1961 | Up
until 1961 he wrote manifestos for the Situationistische Internationale,
a group of anarchistic artists who were against capitalist
functionalism. |
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| 1963 | Founding of the Institute for Comparative Vandalism, whose sole purpose was to collect graffiti and assess their artistic worth. | ||
| 1964 | Participation
in documenta 3 in Kassel. |
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| 1964 | Rejection
of the Guggenheim Prize. Worked with décollage and torn paper. |
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| 1970-72 | Resumed
painting and began bronze and marble sculptures. |
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| 1973 | Major
retrospective at the Kestner Society in Hanover. |
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| Jorn's
expressive gestural pictures, full of demonic, mythical creatures,
constitute a northern variety of Abstract Expressionism. |
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