Asger Jorn

>Asger Jorn 2005-04-30T03:25:41Z FlaBot warnfile Adding:de '''Asger Jorn''' ([[March 3]], [[1914]] - [[May 1]], [[1973]]) was born in [[Vejrum, Jutland, Denmark|Vejrum]], [[Jutland, Denmark|Jutland]], [[Denmark]] under the name [[Oluf Jørgensen]]. Sometimes also called Asgar Jorn. He was a brother to [[Jørgen Nash]]. In 1936 he went to [[Paris]] to join [[Fernand Léger's Académie Contemporaine]]. During the [[Nazi occupation]] of [[Denmark]] Jorn was an active [[communist]] in the [[Resistance_movement|resistance]]. He participated in the art group [[Høst]]. After the occupation was over, he complained that opportunities for critical thinking was curtailed by more centralised bourgeois political control. Finding this unacceptable, he broke with the [[Danish Communist Party]] whilst remaining a lifelong philosophical communist. He was a founder member of [[COBRA (avant-garde movement)|COBRA]] and was a prime mover of their subsequent merger with the [[Lettriste Internationale]] and [[London Psychogeographical Association]] to form the [[Situationist International]] (S.I.). Here he applied his scientific and mathematical knowledge drawn from [[Henri Poincaré]] and [[Niels Bohr]] to develop his situlogical technique. In [[1961]] he left the S.I. to found the [[Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism]]. His philosophical system [[Triolectics]] was given a practical manifestation through the development of [[Three sided football]]. ===See also=== *[[List of Danish painters]] === External links === *[http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/691 Actual exhibitions with Asger Jorn] [[Category:1914 births|Jorn, Asger]] [[Category:1973 deaths|Jorn, Asger]] [[Category:Danish painters|Jorn, Asger]] [[Category:Modern artists|Jorn, Asger]] [[da:Asger Jorn]] [[de:Asger Jorn]] [[fr:Asger Jorn]] [[nl:Asger Jorn]]