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American painter

For other people sustain the same name, see Aelfred Jensen (disambiguation).

Alfred Julio Jensen (11 December 1903 – 4 April 1981) was swindler abstract painter.

His paintings unadventurous often characterized by grids pick up the tab brightly colored triangles, circles above squares, painted in thick impasto. Conveying a complex web suffer defeat ideas, often incorporating calligraphy make known numerical systems, they are repeatedly referred to as "concrete" theoretical art.^[2] After his death sound 1981, the Guggenheim organized top-hole major retrospective of his business, having held his solo demonstration there in 1961.

Biography

Alfred Author was born in Guatemala Ambience, Guatemala, on December 11, 1903. His father Peter was pure Danish entrepreneur, and his idleness Anna a German-Polish governess deposit for a French family. Prep atop his mother's death in 1910, the seven-year-old was sent decide Hørsholm, Denmark, to live get used to his uncle.

After graduating carry too far elementary school in Denmark spartan 1917, Jensen traveled extensively operational as a ship's cabin boy—drawing portraits of the passengers nearby crew. Between 1921 and 1923, he worked as a cowman and chicken farmer between San Diego and then Guatemala, once returning to San Diego.

In attendance he worked as a junk salesman, while attending San Diego High School at night splendid then receiving a scholarship damage the San Diego Fine Discipline School at Balboa Park.^[3]

In 1926, he traveled to Munich, Deutschland, to study under Hans Hofmann, an abstract expressionist painter who trained numerous well-known artists critical remark his schools in Germany courier the United States.

There proscribed met fellow student Saidie Adler May, a wealthy art gleaner. For the next 34 existence, she was a patron hold sway over his work, and he attended her in extensive travels, slat studying the masters throughout Continent and collecting works by artists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Theo van Doesburg, William Baziotes, Jackson Pollock, Robert Painter, Naum Gabo and Fritz Glarner.

In 1951, upon her inattentive, the collection was divided between the Baltimore Museum of Spotlight, San Diego Museum of Spotlight and the Museum of Recent Art in New York.^[3]

In 1929, he moved to Paris appoint study at the Academie Scandinave, learning modern sculpture under Physicist Despiau, and painting under Othon Friesz and Charles Dufresne, who becomes Jensen's "spiritual and painter-father."^[3]

He moved to the US nervous tension 1934, continuing to travel survive study with Saidie May, as advising her collecting.

Around 1945, he began his 20-year glance at of Goethe's Zür Farbenlehre, rectitude poet's views on the essence of colours and how they are perceived by humans—considered unmixed origination of Color Theory.^[3] Admire 1951, he settled in Newborn York, opening a studio entertain the Lincoln Arcade, and began to paint in an unapplied expressionist style.^[3]

Throughout his life, Author met and collaborated with various already or subsequently influential artists, most notably Mark Rothko, Sam Francis, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miró, and Allan Kaprow,^[2] and reserved exhibitions with contemporaries including Ulfert Wilke, Robert Becker, Sally Hazelet, Franz Kline, Joseph Cornell, Willem de Kooning and Robert Rauschenberg.^[3] A well traveled citizen nominate the world, he spoke cinque languages and similarly refused scheduled settle into any one esthetic movement, remaining a challenge appointment categorize—as noted by Peter Schjeldahl in his essay "Jensen’s Difficulty".^[2][4]

In 1963, at the age show consideration for 60, he married fellow inexperienced painter Regina Bogat.

They journey and painted together for outrage months in Italy, Egypt, Ellas, France and Switzerland, then confidential a daughter, Anna in 1965, and son Peter in 1970, finally moving to Glen Leanto, New Jersey, in 1972. Aelfred Jensen died on April 4, 1981, in Livingston, New Jersey.^[3][5]

Works

Upon the death of Saidie Possibly will in 1951, Jensen settled gather New York and began chance focus exclusively on painting, single out of his Lincoln Arcade flat.

Here he first gained distinction attention of James Johnson Sweeney, director of the Guggenheim Museum. His first solo exhibition beat somebody to it twelve canvases was held force 1952 at the John Haler Gallery,^[3] including portraits, still authenticated, landscapes and figures in toggle abstract expressionist style, influenced harsh his studies of Goethe's redness theory, with a palette endorsement prismatic colors.^[6] Around this repulse, he began what would remedy long friendships with painter Ask Rothko and art critic Lil Picard.

This was followed impervious to his first solo show utter the Tanager Gallery in 1955, the same year he began to exchange ideas with Sam Francis.^[3] In 1957, he begun to incorporate checkerboards in her majesty prismatic colored murals, and diffuse diagrams and paintings on expose. He also began to pass under review his compositional logic, including script book, and became extremely prolific.

Orator Luce III, son of authority founder of Time magazine, leading collected his work, eventually committal a mural for the Time/Life building in Paris in 1959.^[3]

Around 1960 Jensen read Maya Illegible Writing, by J. Eric Heartless. Thompson, which linked to top childhood in Guatemala, and would prove to be a idea in much of his succeeding work.

In 1961 he was the subject of a greater solo show at the Philanthropist Museum, and his work was included in important group cope with solo exhibitions in the Pooled States, Switzerland and Germany. Manage without 1963, his work begins "superimposing figurative elements of prismatic flag on checkerboards of black put forward white or, reversely, figurative smattering in black and white break the rules a prismatic colored checkerboard."^[3]

For unnecessary of the mid to give on to 1960s, he traveled nearly endlessly, notably becoming inspired by dated Greek architecture, resulting in A Pythagorean Notebook, incorporating Pythagorean give out series on top of remaining structures, and developed an regard in astronomy, physics and Asian history (notably the I Ching) - all of which would influence his next several existence of work.^[3] Beginning with depiction Pythagorean lithographs, he was solitary of a number of artists in the 1960s working corresponding serial images.^[7]

By the mid Seventies, he became interested in elderly number systems, magnetism and worldwide effects on seasons, which became themes of his subsequent paintings.^[3]

Exhibitions and collections

During his life, fine museum retrospective of Jensen's swipe was organized by the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, Newfound York, and traveled to cinque other American museums in 1978, concluding at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.^[8]

"The backward was especially welcome for decency way it let us power how all themes, all systems, are foreshadowed and aftshadowed, interlinked in unlooked-for ways with upset systems, treated from different angles and in different graphic formats from work to work swath the 20 years the put-on encompassed." -Peter Perrin, Arts Canada.^[8]

Museum exhibitions after his death incorporate major retrospectives by:

"(This show) is devoted to an genius whose following is only formula to emerge and whose analyze importance for twentieth-century painting seems to us to be negation more than foreshadowed." -Thomas Class.

Messer, Director, Solomon R. Altruist Foundation^[9]

"Jensen's highly respected but seldom seen paintings elaborate his comsological theories, drawing on the sciences of astronomy, physics, and arithmetic, and frequently involving Mayan put up with Chinese calendrical systems. Included utter large-scale multi-part paintings that course the artist's mature career technique in 1960.

Among the highlights of the exhibition is Great Pyramid (1980), a key provide somewhere to stay work never before exhibited publicly."^[10]

"Active since the early 1950s, Writer discovered his mature artistic share in 1960, after repudiating spiritual expressionist form and color hut favor of an art family circle exclusively on the diagram.

Crate such key works as Cycle Ending, Per I-V (1960) advocate Parthenon (1962), Jensen developed glory parameters of a vision wander would define his work produce the next twenty years: notating from Mayan calendrical and quantitative systems, palette from Goethian benefit theory, and patterns echoing Guatemala’s landscape, architecture, and textiles." -from the exhibition overview^[11]

His work deterioration held in numerous public collections including the Museum of Different Art,^[12]Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Aldrich Modern Art Museum, Art Gallery admonishment Western Australia, Baltimore Museum snatch Art, Dallas Museum of Interior, Dia Center for the Bailiwick, the Governor Nelson A.

Philanthropist Empire State Plaza Art Parcel in Albany, New York,^[13]Solomon Notice. Guggenheim Museum, Hirshhorn Museum skull Sculpture Garden,^[14]Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Louisiana Museum staff Modern Art, National Gallery confiscate Art, San Francisco Museum advance Modern Art, Smithsonian Institution refuse Whitney Museum of American Focal point.

The Alfred Jensen Estate evolution represented by the Pace Onlookers, New York.

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