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Copyright estate of the artist | | | Jorn, Asger (1914 - 1973) Denmark
Varens Offer, 1952
Oil on wood; 160 x 183 cm CoBrA Group
UID 102-287
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Biography
Danish painter, commercial designer, decorator, ceramicist, sculptor and writer whose personality and work exerted a strong influence over his contemporaries who considered him the greatest Scandinavian artist since Edvard Munch. He studied and worked in Paris with Fernand Léger on Le Corbusier's "Pavillon des Temps Nouveau" at the 1937 Paris World Fair and in 1938 he held his first exhibition, in Copenhagen. He adopted the ideas of Miró, Max Ernst and other Surrealists with a new concept of painting which was freer and guided by colour. His works combined humorous and grotesque figures with a colour spectrum. In Paris 1948, he, Christian Dotremont and Constant formed the Cobra group which intended to unite artists of different countries with similar ideas. In 1952, he published his first book, Held og hasard and, in the mid-50s, he created MIBI (Mouvement International pour un Bauhaus Imaginiste) with Max Bill. The aim being to criticise functionalism and industrial design. He spent the last years of his life collecting his own, and the works of contemporary artists, for the Silkeborg Kunstmuseum. The gestural and expressive images, bursting with demoniac and mythical creatures, represent the Nordic variety of Abstract Expressionism.
Exhibitions
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 10-10-2003 ~ 13-03-2004
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, France 05-10-2001 ~ 14-01-2002
Paris: Capital of the Arts 1900-1968 (Bilbao) Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain 21-05-2002 ~ 03-09-2002
Paris: Capital of the Arts 1900-1968 (London) Royal Academy of Arts, The, United Kingdom 26-01-2002 ~ 19-04-2002
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Nova Apresentação da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-11-1999 ~ 01-03-2000
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
Erich Kahn - Forgotten Generation Jewish Survivor German Expressionist Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 05-05-2005 ~ 09-10-2005
De Miró à Warhol. La Collection Berardo à Paris Musée du Luxembourg, France 16-10-2008 ~ 22-02-2009
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle, 2001 Published by Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon ISBN 2711843319
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176856
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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