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JORN Asger
(1914-1973)
"Style is the expression of a fashionable content where taste becomes its many nuances."
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1914 |
born in Vejrum (Denmark) |
1936 |
works at the Contemporary Academy of Fernand Léger until 1939, then helps Le Corbusier to decorate le pavillon des temps nouveaux of the International Exhibition |
1938 |
first personal exhibition in Copenhagen |
1945 |
joins the revolutionary surrealists |
1948 |
theorist and founding member of the Cobra movement with Appel, Constant, Corneille, Dotremont... |
1953 |
founds the international movement for a imaginary Bauhaus, a kind of more developed Cobra movement |
1973 |
died in Aarhus (Denmark) |
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