painter and graphic artist
born: 1903 Guatemala City - died: 1981 Livingston (New Jersey)
Alfred Jensen uses in his symbolic abstractions with pleasure writing-signs
and numbers, that move into the proximity of flush-mountain and John him,
although he listens to an elderly generation. He is born in Guatemala city
as son of a Danish father and a German-Polish mother, spends his youth
into Horsholm (Denmark) and undertakes into the match for is life numerous
rice. Jensen study 1924/ 25 at the San Diego School of Fine Arts, 1926/
27 with Hans Hofmann in Munich and 1929 at Othon Friesz and Charles Dufresne
at the[Academie Scandinave in Paris. he lets 1951 himself in New York low
and paints pictures in expressionistic manner with [pastos] dishes up color-isles,
that dominate the composition. he gives up 1957 his spontaneous gesticulation
and turns itself a rather analytic painting to: He uses like chessboard
and circular pattern and over-paints them with mystic sign and numbers,
to that he the employment with Goethe color-teaching, Leonardos writings
and different number-systems have prompted. Into the seventies itself works
is still consistently studies of the number-mysticism out of. Jensens first
singles-showing finds 1961 in the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum, New York,
instead of. Since then involved he itself at numerous showings, also in
Europe, amongst them 1968 and 1972 at the "Documenta" in Kassel. Gallery
grain-field and Klipstein, mounts of 1963.- in AK ·A.J.: Recent
Paintings, The Place Gallery, New York of 1973.
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