Robert Jacobsen

Robert Julius Tommy Jacobsen ( born June 4, 1912 in Copenhagen, † 26 January 1993 in Tågelund Egtved ) was an internationally known Danish sculptor, painter and printmaker. He was a representative of abstract art after the Second World War. His specialty was the Concrete Art.

Life and work

As a sculptor, Jacobsen was an autodidact. His first sculptures he made out of wood. In 1947 he went with an art scholarship to Paris. There is a close friendship with the artists Richard Mortensen and Asger Jorn developed. Jacobsen lived and worked until 1969 in Paris. He was inducted into the artistic circle of the Galerie Denise René. From 1947 he made ​​his first iron sculptures, which he had painted some of his artist friend Jean Dewasne. He formed his sculptures from open iron structures. Jacobsen distanced himself with his sculpture of closed forms to the open space. His iron sculptures solve the problem, such as room encircle by plastic, strictly geometric, sometimes cubic forms on the one hand, is on the other hand to make it visible as a negative volume of different approaches, and in the series of works that have been created according to the principle of free variations on a theme. These sculptures with their rigid or curved surfaces, so holding a rod gently and compellingly in a single correct position, that 's a hard constellation has arisen, the smooth and sharply delimits a particular space - possibility, indeed defined - these sculptures are of great persuasive power. This is a way of sculptural work that strives for a figure that has something to do with music with ballet: an elegant, yet still incredibly strong character who "stands" for a moment holds his breath - and in this sense hold Jacobsen sculptures the 1950s until the 1960s the breath, thus forming a proof of Lessing's theory, which he formulated by the Laocoon Group: Even Jacobsen shows the " fertile moment ", not the " extreme ", the moment, the shape definition continue to think it so can implement in motion. His sculptures he inked black. In addition to the sculpture Jacobsen also created colorful graphics and lots of paintings. In 1959 he took part in documenta 2 in Kassel in the sculpture department.

"In the early 1950s follow sculptures that are designed far more stringent: very built, constructive work, which are distinguished by their clear tectonics. In these various spatial levels are intertwined in a very unusual way. Networking sovereign and tense fragile, extremely into the Graphical continuous elements the room: gore -shaped iron pieces suggest centrifugal dynamics, rhomboid or diamond-shaped frame - hung vertically or horizontally - to solve through the impression of floating, the weight of the material, and undermined by them immanent diagonality at the same time the classical references of the perpendicular to the horizontal, die-cut sheets resolve the matter on, standing vertically, bugförmig welded together iron strip - sometimes outside, sometimes pointing inwards - stabilize these spatial structure of one of the sides, similar to the buttresses of Gothic architecture. The works of this period Jacobsen characterizes the dialectic between the concrete and the surrounding space Wrapped Media: The Hermetic inward drawee always corresponds to the opening to the outside, almost offensive adaptation of the surrounding space, be Noticeably making. There arise - such as Lothar Romain puts it - force fields ".

His son Bernard Léauté was a close confidant and employees. When his beloved jazz music Robert gave his works with playful ease and highly concentrated the "finishing touch " - a meditative trance state the same. On every nuance was precisely respected.

In addition to his life in France Jacobsen was Professor of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He taught there from 1962 until 1981. Between 1976 and 1985, Robert Jacobsen, a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

Jacobsen has received numerous awards and accolades for his work, including:

  • Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale for plastic ( 1966)
  • Thorvaldsen Medal ( 1967)
  • Prince Eugen Medal of Sweden (1974 )
  • Honorary Member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1979 )
  • Officer of the Legion of Honour of the Académie Française (1980 )
  • Commander of the Dannebrogordens (1983 )
  • Commander des arts et des lettres, Paris ( 1987).

Robert Jacobsen died in 1993 at his country estate in Tågelund at Egtved.

Artistic legacy

Jacobsen left a comprehensive graphical and pictorial work. However, sculptural works played the leading role in his art.

In 1993, his memory of Robert Jacobsen Prize of the Würth Foundation was launched, which is awarded every two years to fine artists to promote them.

" ... Everyone, of course, must know he is dealing with splat. A former badminton champion, a film actor, a former sailor, a whale butcher, an ex - barman, to antiquarian, a musician ( jazz to be sure ) a chaufeur, a confectioner and a croupler, a grandfather at thirty-seven, the Danish Robert Jacobsen is Certainly one of the best sculptors of our time, a worthy successor of the Rumanian Brâncuşi, of the Russian Pevsner, of the American Calder and of one or two others splat you choose june accordion thing to you tastes ... "

" ... Every one should naturally realize who he's dealing with here ... The Dane Robert Jacobsen is certainly one of the best iron sculptors of our time, a worthy successor to the Romanian Brancusi, the Russians Pevsner, the American Alexander Calder and one or two others, which you may choose according to their personal taste ... "

"Your sculpture is very beautiful and extraordinary in their balance. "

"The Art of Jacobsen is the expression of this state of permanent grace, this inner wealth. "

" ... He has had success experienced honors and taught from 1962 to 1982 at the Munich Academy. In the fifties was Robert Jacobsen, who was born in Copenhagen in 1912 sculptor to the great artistic personalities, which led the vanguard of the profession. In Paris he reussierte particularly, and his work is honored at the 1966 Venice Biennale, along with that of Etienne Martin with the grand prize for sculpture ... The work is vibrant history of art and continues to the present. "

" The black -painted sculptures have simply become classics within the constructivism of the postwar period. They are like simple characters that have been painted with a full brush and ink freely in space. The heavy iron was floated easily. The sculptures are supple and graceful, but also cautious and puritanical in nature. The fabric iron has been neutralized by the anonymous color, the sculptures have become one with its purpose to be nerves of the construction. "

"Art is the vitamin C of the soul. "

" My ideal has always remained the same: to force the unknown shape."

Museums with works by Robert Jacobsen:

Denmark:

  • Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
  • NY Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
  • Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk
  • Statskole Esbjerg, Esbjerg
  • Fyens pin Museum, Odense
  • Kastrup Museum, Kastrup
  • North Jutland Art Museum, Aalborg
  • Herning Art Museum, Herning

Belgium:

  • Musee d'Art Wallon, Liege
  • Musee d' Ixelles, Brussels

Brazil:

  • Museo de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo

Germany:

  • Von der Heydt - Museum, Wuppertal
  • Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
  • Sculpture museum showcase Marl
  • Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel
  • Neue Pinakothek Munich
  • Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
  • Kunsthalle in Emden Foundation Henri Nannen, Emden
  • Museum Würth, Künzelsau
  • Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall
  • Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
  • Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim

Finland:

  • Didrichsenin Taidemuseo, Helsinki

France:

  • Musee National d' Art Moderne, Paris
  • Centre Pompidou, Paris
  • Musee des Beaux -Arts, Rennes
  • Fond National d' Art Contemporain
  • Musee Rodin Paris
  • Musee d'Art Contemporain, Dunkerque
  • Musee de la Princerie, Verdun
  • Musee de Peinture et de Sculpture, Grenoble
  • Musee des arts contemporain, Abbaye Saint -André, Meymac

Netherlands:

  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • Rijksmuseum Kröller -Müller, Otterloo
  • Gemeentemuseum, La Haye
  • Cobra Museum, Amstelveen

Norway:

  • National Gallery, Oslo
  • Billedgallerie Bergen, Bergen
  • Sonja Henies og Niels Onstads pin Elser, Høvikodden
  • Stavanger Museum, Stavanger

Sweden:

  • Moderna Museet, Stockholm
  • Arkiv for Decorative Arts, Lund

Switzerland:

  • Musee des Beaux -Arts, La Chaux -de-Fonds

Hungary:

  • Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum, Budapest

USA:

  • Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
  • Fondation Herzog, New York
  • Carnegie Institute, Philadelphia
  • Portland, Oregon

Selection of large sculptures:

  • Tientsin, China
  • UNESCO - Headquarters, Paris, France
  • UNIQA Group, Vienna, Austria
  • Olympic Park, Seoul, South Korea
  • Abbaye Saint -André, Meymac, France
  • Art Pavilion, Esbjerg
  • Danish Technical University, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
  • Lego Factory, Billund
  • Lindø shipyard, Odense
  • Fountains, Gladsaxe, Denmark
  • Roskilde, Denmark
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