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INTRO
ALAIN LESTIÉ
ALBERT BITRAN
ASGER JORN
 PRESS RELEASE
 Birchs thoughts about Jorn
 Paintings exhibited in Galerie Birch of Asger Jorn
BENGT LINDSTRÖM
BJØRN T. HANSEN
BRAM VAN VELDE
CARL HENNING PEDERSEN
CHRISTIAN DOTREMONT
CORNEILLE
EGILL JACOBSEN
ERIK BILLE CHRISTIANSEN
JAN VOSS
JEAN MESSAGIER
JEAN-PIERRE PINCEMIN
JEAN ROBERT IPOUSTEGUY
JOHN CHRISTOFOROU
JØRGEN HAUGEN SØRENSEN
KAREL APPEL
LISE HONORÉ
LARS DAN
MOGENS ANDERSEN
PIERRE ALECHINSKY
PINOT GALLIZIO
REINHOUD
RENE BERTHOLO
ROBERT JACOBSEN
PIERRE SOULAGES
TOM KRØJER
UFFE CHRISTOFFERSEN
ULF TROTZIG
YASSE TABUCHI
YOSHIO NAKAJIMA
WALASSE TING (Ding Xiongguan)
ASGER JORN



Anette Birch showing "Mørket hæver sig" from 1966


Trauer

Born 1914, Denmark - Died 1973

Painter, graphic artist, potter and author

 

Education

The Contemporary Academy, Paris

(under Fernand Léger), 1936-37

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 1938-40.

 

Biography

One of the post-war absolutely largest internationally Danish artists which have had great influence on later Danish painters. Asger Jorn was the creating mind behind the magazine “Helhesten” (1941-44), which got to be the gathering organ for the “Høst” exhibitions abstract-expressionistic painters, and became a model for the later CoBrA-magazine. Jorn created together with Belgian and Dutch artists, the CoBrA-movement which got established in 1948. Mostly Jorn is best known for his oil paintings, but he also created an uncharted amount of ceramics, various prints, watercolours, drawings, gouaches and collages. In addition to this, Jorn wrote articles and art-theoretic books.

His political view came to term in the big painting "Stalingrad" (1957-60 and 1967-72), now at the Silkeborg Art Museum. His radicalism came to expression when he refused public attention, he declined to accept the “Eckersbergs Medaillen”, the Guggenheim Award and to exhibit with Denmark's detachment by the Biennale in Venice.

Jorn travelled much and notably in Albisola and Cuba he found great inspiration which resulted in forceful expressions on the canvas.

Børge Birch founded very early, a deep friendship with Asger Jorn and already in the mid-thirties did Birch sell Jorns artworks. Asger Jorn has exhibited many times in Galerie Birch, plenty of group-exhibitions and solo-exhibitions in the years 1948-50-53-55-61-62-63-64-65-66-67-68-69-72 and 2006-2007. 

 

Selected representations

The State's Museum of Art

Kobberstiksamlingen

Louisiana

Silkeborg Art Museum

Arken

Nordjyllands Art Museum

Herning Art Museum

Randers Art Museum

The Museum for Samtidskunst, Oslo

Gothenburg Art Museum

Tate Gallery, London

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

The National Gallery, Berlin

Lenbachhaus, Munich

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Guggenheim Museum, New York

 

Honorary and rewards

Akademiet 1951-52, 1955

Eckersberg Medaillen 1962 (refused)

Guggenheim International Award 1964 (refused)

Prince Eugene Medaillen 1970

 

Galerie Birch is Denmark's oldest gallery for contemporary art and have a thorough knowledge of notably Asger Jorn and the other artists behind the CoBrA-movement, which the gallery had a close relationship with before, under and after the groups existence. Jorn and Birch has been close associated and Galerie Birch is one of the leading galleries with personal knowledge and relationship with this wonderful performer.

 

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Selected artwork




Et blik ind i fortiden. 1962. 60 x 73 cm.

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