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Asger Jorn ( March 3, 1914 - May 1, 1973) was born in Vejrum , Jutland, Denmark under the name Oluf Jørgensen . Sometimes also called Asgar Jorn. He was a brother to Jørgen Nash. In 1936 he went to Paris to join Fernand Léger's Académie Contemporaine . During the Nazi occupation of Denmark Jorn was an active communist in the resistance. He participated in the art group Høst .

After the occupation was over, he complained that opportunities for critical thinking was curtailed by more centralised bourgeois political control. Finding this unacceptable, he broke with the Danish Communist Party whilst remaining a lifelong philosophical communist. He was a founder member of Cobra and was a prime mover of their subsequent merger with the Lettriste Internationale and London Psychogeographical Association to form the Situationist International (S.I.). Here he applied his scientific and mathematical knowledge drawn from Henri Poincaré and Niels BohrNiels Henrik David Bohr ( October 7, 1885 November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made essential contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics. Bohr's contributions to physics Bohr's model of atomic structure. The theory that to develop his situlogical technique.

In 19611961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its first cover for the year) was the first "upside-down" year i. one that looked the same upside down since 1881, and the last until 6009. Events January January 1 The farthing coin, used since the 13th century, cease he left the S.I. to found the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative VandalismThe Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism was founded in 1961 by Asger Jorn. In 1965 the Silkeborg municipal government provided a building to store over 20,000 of photographs taken by Jorn, Gerard Francechi and Ulrik Ross..

His philosophical system Triolectics was given a practical manifestation through the development of Three sided footballThree-sided football is a situationist game meant to disrupt one's everyday idea of football. A variant of two-sided football, it was devised by the Danish situationist Asger Jorn. Played on a hexagonal pitch, the game can be adapted for similarity to soc.

See also: List of Danish paintersThis is a list of Danish painters who were born in or whose creative production is associated with Denmark: Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard ( 1744- 1809) Else Alfelt ( 1910- 1974) Marie Triepcke Kroyer Alfven ( 1867- 1940) Anna Ancher ( 1859- 1935) Michael Pet

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