{"id":9372,"date":"2019-09-12T16:50:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T15:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tornabuoniart.com\/artisti\/jorn-asger\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T16:45:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:45:51","slug":"jorn-asger","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.tornabuoniart.com\/en\/artisti\/jorn-asger\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorn Asger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1577099752877{margin-top: 100px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243; enable_sticky=&#8221;true&#8221; sticky_offset=&#8221;100&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1547225524376{margin-bottom: 50px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tornabuoniart.com\/en\/artists\/\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>&lt;&lt; back to artists<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;7500&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; 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In 1936 he went to Paris to study under the teachings of F. Leger at the Academy of art.<\/p>\n<p>During the war, he animated the Danish surrealist and abstract movement. After the war he returned to France where, in 1948,\u00a0 along with Christian Dotremont, Karel Appel, Corneille, and Constant Nieuwenhuys, founded the European avant-garde movement CoBrA. The new group took its name from a combination of Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam, the cities from which the founders originated.<\/p>\n<p>CoBrA was dissolved in 1951 due to a dispute about the extent to which art and politics should remain separate or integrated concerns. As a communist \u2013 of sorts \u2013 Jorn believed art should play an active role in advancing the revolutionary socialist cause, but other group members rejected his view.<\/p>\n<p>In 1953 he began his intensive work in ceramics. 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