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JORN Asger
(1914-1973)
"Style is the expression of a fashionable content where taste becomes its many nuances."
Asger JORN, a few dates

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)