Jorn Museum

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Jorn Museum
Jorn Museum
Entrance area (2017)
Data
place Silkeborg
Art
architect Niels Frithiof Truelsen
opening 1965
Number of visitors (annually) 50,000
management
Jacob Thage
Website

The Jorn Museum is a museum and exhibition space for modern and contemporary art in the Danish town of Silkeborg .

collection

Museum Jorn's collection includes around 2,000 works by the Danish artist Asger Jorn (1914–1973), including numerous major works such as the monumental painting Stalingrad and the 13-meter-long tapestry The Long Journey . Jorn's paintings, drawings, ceramics, graphics and textile works make up a tenth of the approximately 20,000 registered objects in the collection. Since Jorn bequeathed his private collection with over 5,000 works by numerous Danish and international representatives of classical modernism and spontaneous abstract art of the 20th century to the city of Silkeborg during his lifetime, the house's collection has grown steadily.

Over 500 artists are currently represented - especially with graphic work. The collection includes works by Lucio Fontana , Fernand Léger , Joan Miró , Max Ernst , Jean Dubuffet , Jean Arp , Edvard Munch , Henri Michaux , Wols , Enrico Baj , Wifredo Lam , Wilhelm Freddie , Roberto Matta and members of the CoBrA and SPUR groups Museum Jorn now also includes positions in recent art - including works by Bjørn Nørgaard , AR Penck and Georg Baselitz as well as around 40 paintings and all 1,500 etchings by the Danish artist Per Kirkeby .

History and architecture

In 1940 the Silkeborg Museum Association began purchasing modern art, which in 1951 found a home in the Silkeborg Museum of Local History. In 1961 the exhibition space was relocated to a building belonging to the Th. Langs School in the city center. There the Silkeborg Art Museum was founded as an independent institution in 1965.

In 1982 the museum moved to a new building designed by Niels Frithiof Truelsen on the nearby Gudenå river. The museum complex, which has around 2,000 square meters of exhibition space, is inspired by Constantin Brâncuși's studio in front of the Center Pompidou in Paris. In 1998 the building was enlarged by a further part of the building according to the plans of the same architect (Niels Frithiof Truelsen) by around 1,000 square meters of exhibition space.

When the museum reopened in 2010, the name was changed from Silkeborg Kunstmuseum to Museum Jorn.

In 2014, a special exhibition was held to celebrate Asger Jorn's 100th birthday. Works by Goya, Miró, Kandinsky , Picasso, de Kooning , Ernst and Pollock were exhibited.

literature

  • Troels Andersen: Silkeborg Kunstmuseums Historie , Anagram Verlag, Silkeborg 2008
  • Troels Andersen: Silkeborg Kunstmuseums Samling , Silkeborg Kunstmuseums Verlag, Silkeborg 1994

Web links

Commons : Museum Jorn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. silkeborg.com. Retrieved January 26, 2015 . (Danish)
  2. silkeborgarkiv.dk: Museum Jorn - et jorn-museum . Retrieved January 26, 2015 . (Danish)
  3. kunsten.dk: KUNSTEN has udlånt flere af de bedste kunstværker fra samlingen til Museum Jorn. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on January 26, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kunsten.dk   (Danish)

Coordinates: 56 ° 9 ′ 38 ″  N , 9 ° 33 ′ 30 ″  E