Alfred Jensen

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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