Jacob Jensen

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Jacob Jensen (born April 29, 1926 in Copenhagen ; † May 15, 2015 in Virksund, Skive municipality ) was a Danish industrial designer . He became known, among other things, with works for Bang & Olufsen and through a solo exhibition in 1978 at the Museum of Modern Art .

biography

B&O Beocord 2000

Jensen grew up as the son of an upholsterer in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen . He left elementary school after the seventh year of school. In 1948 he was accepted at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in the furniture design department. There he learned the design methods of Kaare Klint , a representative of functionalism , and Hans Wegner . He left school in 1952 specializing in industrial design . From 1952 to 1958 he was employed by the first Danish industrial design studio and became its director in 1954. In 1958 he founded his own design studio called "Jacob Jensen Design" in Frederiksberg with eight employees. Since the administrative work of the studio was too great for him, he moved on to Jyllinge with two employees . There they developed a design concept for General Electric , which the company did not use. This concept was later adopted by Bang & Olufsen (B&O). From 1959 to 1961 he was an assistant professor of industrial design at the University of Illinois at Chicago .

Jensen was married three times and had five children; his son Timothy Jacob Jensen later took over the management of his design company.

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Jacob Jensen has designed over 500 products, such as B. radios , clocks , telephones , scales , kitchens , glasses and smoke alarms . He was chief designer for Gaggenau Hausgeräte . He designed the “Jensen One”, a car based on the Citroën XM .

Some of his design work has been included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art , New York and in the Arkiv for Dansk Design collection of the Designmuseum Danmark in Copenhagen.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1978: Design for sound by Jacob Jensen, Museum of Modern Art , New York
  • 2007: Generations - Jacob Jensen Design, Skive Art Museum

Awards (selection)

  • iF Design Award : 28 awards for Jacob Jensen Design between 1967 and 2019.
  • red dot design award : 16 awards for Jacob Jensen Design
  • Inclusion in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs' list of “Great Danes”.

Picture gallery

  • Bowl Rosti Margrethe Bowl (1950)

  • Speakers B&O BeoVox 2500 Speakers (1967)

  • Record player B&O Beogram 4000 (1972)

  • Wrist watch JACOB JENSEN ™ Classic 510 (1986)

  • Built-in cooker Gaggenau EB900 (1993)

  • Telephone JACOB JENSEN ™ T3 Telephone (1994)

  • Vertu Aerius Bluetooh Headset (2006)

  • TV Toshiba VL748 (2010)

  • Coffin Tommerup Kister Diamond 32 Coffin (2010)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Designstjernen Jacob Jensen er død. ( Memento from May 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Jyllands-Posten , May 16, 2015.
  2. ↑ Manden bag Margrethe-skålen er død. Danmarks Radio , May 16, 2015.
  3. ^ A b Bang & Olufsen Designer - Jacob Jensen. BeoWorld.org (English).
  4. ↑ a b 'Design for sound by Jacob Jensen' Exhibition (1978). BeoWorld.org (English).
  5. ^ Bang & Olufsen: Design for Sound by Jakob Jensen. MoMA , 1978.
  6. ^ Edwin Heathcote: Creator of cult items where form followed feelings . In: Financial Times , May 23, 2015, p. 5
  7. ↑ Jacob Jensen . MoMA.
  8. ↑ Entries on Jensen in the database of the Danish Design Museum on Arkiv for Dansk Design.
  9. ↑ Generation design: "Like father, like son" ( Memento from October 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). art , September 20, 2007.
  10. ^ Profiles: Jacob Jensen Design. iF Design Award (English).
  11. ^ Design studios: Jacob Jensen Design ApS. reddot 21 - World of Design.
  12. ^ Great Danes, Designers: Jacob Jensen. Denmark.dk (English) ( Memento of 6 July 2017 Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Jensen, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish industrial designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 2015
Place of death Virksund, Skive municipality