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Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author

Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 – 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International.

The largest collection of Jorn's works—including his major work Stalingrad—can be seen in the Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark. Jorn willed his property and the works of art located inside to the Municipality of Albissola Marina (Savona), so the Italian museum called "Casa Museo Jorn" was created for displaying his works.^[1]

Early life

He was born in Vejrum, in the northwest corner of Jutland, Denmark, and baptized Asger Oluf Jørgensen.

He was the second oldest of six children, an elder brother to Jørgen Nash.

Connected only by the interest of Cobra artist Asger Jorn, their works are wholly singular, and defy any neat categorisation.

At the forefront of their inaugural exhibition will be paintings by world famous artists Asger Jorn, co-founder of the CoBrA art movement in.

A leading figure of the postwar avant-garde, Danish artist Asger Jorn has long been recognized for his founding contributions to the Cobra and Situationist.

In he co-founded the international artists' group Cobra together with Constant, Corneille, Asger Jorn and others.

Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March – 1 May ) was a Danish painter Jorn's position as COBRA and SI member was thus a complex one, and.

Both of his parents were teachers. His father, Lars Peter Jørgensen, a fundamentalist Christian, died from pneumonia^[2] (contracted after a car crash) when Asger was 12 years old. H