Troels Andersen

Troels Andersen (born February 27, 1940 ) is a Danish art historian .

life and work

From 1961 to 1966 he studied art history , Russian language , literature and art at the Universities of Copenhagen , Moscow , Leningrad and Amsterdam . Andersen co-founded the art school Den eksperimenterende Kunstskole in 1961 and was the chief editor of the magazines Information , CRAS and Billedkunst . From 1966 to 1977 he taught at the Universities of Aarhus and Copenhagen. For more than twenty years until 2004 Andersen headed the Silkeborg Art Museum, which houses the estate of the famous Danish artist Asger Jorn . Between 1978 and 1984 he was chairman of Foreningen af ​​Danske Kunstmuseer .

His authoritative publications include scientific work on Asger Jorn. He published a biography about him in 1994, which was also translated into German in 2001. Together with Guy Atkins, he presented the catalog raisonné of Asger Jorn's paintings in three volumes and continues them to this day in supplement volumes. In 1970 he published the writings of Kasimir Malewitsch and the catalog raisonné of the collection of works in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Berlin 1927 exhibition . In 2002 he received the Knud W. Jensen Prize in recognition of his decades of scientific work, particularly in the field of Danish art.

Web links

• Bibliography Troels Andersen ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )