Egill Jacobsen

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Egill Jacobsen (born December 16, 1910 in Copenhagen , † April 21, 1998 ibid) was an expressionist Danish painter, professor and member of the artists' association CoBrA .

life and work

Jacobsen studied painting from 1932 to 1933 at the Royal Danish Art Academy under Kræsten Iversen and Peder Hald. Initially, his paintings were inspired by the work of Albert Gottschalk . During his visit to Paris in 1934 Egill Jacobsen discovered the work of Matisse , Léger , Miro and met Picasso personally. Jacobsen changed the way he worked.

Egill Jacobsen was a member of the artists' associations Linien and Høst and wrote articles for the magazine Helhesten / Höllenpferd . Since 1948 he was a member of CoBrA . In 1959 he was appointed professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, where he taught until 1973.

“Jacobsen's work“ Obhobning ”, painted at the end of 1938, has an electrifying effect on his colleagues. The man who is surrounded and oppressed by darkness dreams of freedom and change. Jacobsen later recalls that he painted the picture under the impression of the German troops marching into Czechoslovakia. He lets the paint run unhindered across the canvas, unleashes it - just as the mighty powers of the exercise of power have been unleashed, which he wants to make visible.

Egill Jacobsen's work shows a completely new direction. From 1939 onwards, Danish artists developed an understanding of art in a variety of ways, aimed at bringing up and making visible the archetypal knowledge of the unconscious - as it was known in prehistoric painting and how it lives on in part in Scandinavian folk art. Unsurprisingly, these artists have a keen interest in psychology and that many of them undergo analysis from a psychiatrist closely associated with their circle.

Egill Jacobsen's painting develops in a straight line from the style found in 1939; his masks and plant beings retain great directness and freshness. "

- Willemijn Stokvis

Awards

  • 1959: Eckersberg Medal

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cobra Egill , accessed on February 18, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ Galerie Birch Egill Jacobsen , accessed on February 18, 2018 (English).
  3. ^ Cobra, Willemijn Stokvis, An International Movement in Art after World War II, pages 9 and 10, Barcelona 1987, ISBN 3-07-50-9200-2
personal data
SURNAME Jacobsen, Egill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION expressionist Danish painter and professor. He was a member of the artists' association CoBrA
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1998
Place of death Copenhagen