Jørgen Nash facts for kids

Jørgen Nash (born March 16, 1920 – died May 17, 2004) was a talented Danish artist and writer. He was also a very important person in a group called Situationism, which focused on art and social ideas.

A Creative Life

Jørgen Nash was born in a place called Vejrum in Jutland, Denmark. His birth name was Jørgen Axel Jørgensen. He was the brother of another famous artist, Asger Jorn. Later, Jørgen changed his last name to Nash.

He was married three times and had six children. His last marriage was to the painter Lis Zwick, and they stayed together until he passed away in 2004. For the last 40 years of his life, Jørgen lived in an artist community called Drakabygget. This community was located outside Örkelljunga in Sweden.

From 1948 to 1951, Jørgen was involved with an art group called CoBrA. After that, he joined the Situationist International.

In 1959, he created a book of poems called Stavrim, Sonetter. His brother, Asger Jorn, drew the pictures for the book.

In 1960, Jørgen Nash and Asger Jorn started a group called the Situationist Bauhaus. It was based at the Drakabygget farm.

Jørgen also edited a magazine called Drakabygget. This magazine shared ideas about art and how society works.

In 1963, he was given an honorary artist title by the Royal Danish Academy of Art.

Art Exhibitions

Jørgen Nash's art was shown in many places around the world, including:

• Galerias del Palacio de Belles Artes, Mexico City
• Kobe Art Museum, Kobe, Japan
• Museum of Modern Art New York
• Moderna Museet
• National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
• Museum de Art Moderno, Mexico City
• Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
• Rooseum, Sweden
• The Modern Art Gallery Silkeborg, Denmark
• Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City
• Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach am Main, Germany
• Yokohama City Art Hall, Yokohama, Japan
• Tessin Institute, Paris
• Museo National de Belles Artes and Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
• Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden
• Kongelige Kobberstiksamling, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Centre Pompidou, Paris
• Royal Academi of Art, Stockholm
• Museu Dárt Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain

Leaving the Situationist International

In 1962, Jørgen Nash was part of a vote to remove another group, the Spur group, from the Situationist International. He voted with most of the group to do this.

Later that year, Jørgen Nash had different ideas for the Scandinavian part of the Situationist International. He wanted to change it into a new "Bauhaus" group in Sweden. He published a paper called Danger! Do Not Lean Out. This caused a disagreement with the main Situationist International group.

The Situationist International believed that Nash wanted to use the "situationism" name to attract art dealers. They said his new group quickly went back to old ways of making art. Because of these disagreements, Jørgen Nash was no longer part of the Situationist International.

On April 24, 1964, Jørgen Nash and others from his Bauhaus Situationniste group did something famous. They cut off the head of The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen harbor. This was an artistic protest against how much people were focused on buying things.

After leaving the first group, Jørgen Nash became involved in other similar movements. These included the Second Situationist International and the Situationist Antinational, which started in 1974.

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