Asger Jorn (March 3, 1914 - May 1, 1973) was born in Vejrum, Jutland, Denmark under the name Oluf Jørgensen. Sometimes also called Asgar Jorn. He was a brother to Jørgen Nash. Both his parents were teachers. His father was a fundamentalist Christian who died when he was 12 years old. His mother was more liberal but committed Christian. Thus by the age of 16 he was influenced by Nicolai Grundtvig. Although he had already started to paint, Asger enrolled in the teacher training college in Silkeborg where he paid particular attention to a course in Nineteenth Century Scandinavian thought. When he graduated in 1935, the principal wrote a reference for him which said that he had attained 'an extraordinary rich personal development and maturity' - especially because of his wide reading in areas outside the topics required for his studies. Whilst at College he joined the Danish Communist Party and came under the direct influence of Christian Christensen. Jump to: navigation, search March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Jump to: navigation, search May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... Jutland Peninsula Jutland (Danish: Jylland, German: Jütland) is a peninsula in northern Europe that forms the continental part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany, dividing the North Sea from the Baltic Sea. ... Jørgen Nash (March 16, 1920 - May 17, 2004) was a Danish artist, writer and central proponent of situationism. ... Fundamentalism is a movement to maintain strict adherence to founding principles. ... Jump to: navigation, search As a noun, Christian is an appellation and moniker deriving from the appellation Christ, which many people associate exclusively with Jesus of Nazareth. ... Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (September 8, 1783, Uldby, Sjælland, Denmark, –September 2, 1872, Copenhagen) was a Danish teacher , writer, poet, philosopher, historian, priest, and even politician. ... Hjejlen (The Golden Plover) is an historic steamboat that sails from Silkeborg to Himmelbjerget. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Scandinavian can mean: a resident of, or anything relating to Scandinavia any North Germanic language a chess opening, Scandinavian Defense the aviation corpotation Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Communist Party of Denmark (Danish: Danmarks Kommunistiske Parti), a political party in Denmark, was founded as Venstresocialistiske Parti (Left Socialist Party) in 1919. ...

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. He participated in the art group Høst. Jump to: navigation, search The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... A resistance movement is a group dedicated to fighting an invader in an occupied country. ...

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 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. COBRA was a European avant-garde movement active from 1949 to 1952. ... The Lettrist International (LI) was the first breakaway group from Isidore Isous Lettrist Movement (LM). ... London Psychogeographical Association (LPA) is a fictional association created by absurdists. ... The Situationist International (SI), an international political and artistic movement, originated in the Italian village of Cosio dArroscia on 28 July 1957 with the fusion of several extremely small artistic tendencies: the Lettrist International, the International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association. ... Jump to: navigation, search Henri Poincaré, photograph from the frontispiece of the 1913 edition of Last Thoughts Jules Henri Poincaré (April 29, 1854 – July 17, 1912), generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of Frances greatest mathematicians, theoretical scientists and a philosopher of science. ... Jump to: navigation, search Niels Bohr Niels Henrik David Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made essential contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics. ...

In 1961 he left the S.I. to found the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism. Later, he donated a museum for modern art to the Danish town of Silkeborg, near where he grew up. Jump to: navigation, search 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism (Skandinavisk institut for sammenlignende vandalisme) was founded in 1961 by the Danish artist Asger Jorn, Peter Glob and Werner Jacobsen from the Danish National Museum and Holger Arbman of the University of Lund, Sweden. ... Hjejlen (The Golden Plover) is an historic steamboat that sails from Silkeborg to Himmelbjerget. ...

His philosophical system Triolectics was given a practical manifestation through the development of Three sided football. See also Ternary logic. ... Three-sided football is a variation of football with three teams instead of the usual two. ...

See also

• List of Danish painters

This is a list of Danish painters who were born in or whose creative production is associated with Denmark: Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard (1744-1809) Else Alfelt (1910-1974) Marie Triepcke Krøyer Alfvén (1867-1940) Anna Ancher (1859-1935) Michael Peter Ancher (1849-1927) Wilhelm Bendz (1804-1832) Ejler...

External links

• Danish Expressionist Artist Life and Paintings by:Karan Reshad | kolahstudio
• Actual exhibitions with Asger Jorn

Reference

• Ett Binds Leksikon, edition 3 (1990). Article: Jorn, Asger Oluf
• Comparative Vandalism: Asger Jorn and the artistic attitude to life by Peter Sheild, Borgen/Ashgate (1998)