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Asger Jorn (March 3, 1914 - May 1, 1973) was born
in Vejrum, Jutland, Denmark|Vejrum, Jutland,
Denmark|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_movement|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 (avant-garde movement)|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 Bohr to develop his
situlogical technique.

In 1961 he left the S.I. to found the Scandinavian
Institute of Comparative Vandalism. Later, he
donated a museum for modern art to the Danish town
of Silkeborg, near where he grew up.

His philosophical system Triolectics was given a
practical manifestation through the development of
Three sided football.

===See also=== 
*List of Danish painters

=== External links ===
*http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artist
Info/artist/691 Actual exhibitions with Asger Jorn

=== Reference ===

* Citeencyclopedia | ency=Ett Binds Leksikon |
edition=3 | year=1990 | article=Jorn, Asger Oluf