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Robert Jacobsen
"With stones, you sail between forms. With metal, you know the form, you choose the space."
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Le sculpteur danois était venu s’y installer en 1969. Robert Jacobsen meurt d’une crise cardiaque, dans sa demeure, le 26 janvier 1993 à Tagelund (ouest de Egtved, est du Jutland, Danemark). Il avait 80 ans. Il repose en paix dans le cimetière de cette toute petite ville. En son hommage, avec respect, nous y déposons une simple fleur blanche.
"La soudure fut ma chance. Ainsi je suis devenu un sculpteur de ferraille. C'est tout, il n'y a pas à broder, ni de belles histoires à inventer. " - Robert Jacobsen
"Les sculptures de Jacobsen sont de véritables architectures d’espaces saisis dans leur mobilité et leur inflexible expansion. " - Pierre Volboudt
"Peu à peu, l’artiste s’est orienté vers une sobriété de la forme non sans renier la source autochtone de son art. " - Jacques Busse
"La simplicité, Jacobsen la respirait et la recherchait tout à la fois. " - Federico Mayor
"Rester au plus près des choses, par les moyens les plus simples. " - Robert Jacobsen
"Si je veux utiliser tout ce fer, c’est pour qu'il n'en reste plus pour fabriquer des tanks et des canons. " - Robert Jacobsen
Notes of biography
Robert Julius Tommy Jacobsen was born in 1912 in Copenhagen to a very modest family. After his college, he carries out several trades. He did not take classes at an Academy and trains himself in sculpture. He admires Rodin and Henri Laurens.
In 1930, Jacobsen produces his first sculptures in wood without any preparatory drawings and adheres to the surrealist movement ‘Host’. The artist is inspired by the stories and fables of Scandinavia working first with wood, then stone. An exhibition in 1932 in Copenhagen on German expressionism inspires him, he discovers Nolde, Klee, etc.; the sculptor Barlach, the work of Arp, he is led towards abstraction.
During the war, he joins the young artists brought together by the revue ‘Helhesten’, led by Asger Jorn. The artist becomes friends with Asger Jorn and with Mortensen. His exhibitions are held more frequently in Scandanavia with his friends such as Hansen or Mortensen. The work of Robert Jacobsen already obeys the formal imperatives.
In 1947, he receives a scholarship from the French state and moves to Paris. It is in 1949 that the artist abandons stone and becomes one of the giants of hammered, forged and welded metal sculptures. He creates abstract forged sculptures where the void is underlined; the void is in effect considered as an entire form in itself where the metal is used to emphasize it. In the 50’s and 60’s, Jacobsen produces sculpture with discarded metal.
In 1962, he is named professor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Munich. It is at this time that the artist adds polychrome to accentuate the effects of form. In 1966, Jacobsen receives the grand prize for sculpture at the Biennale of Venice. The artist returns to Denmark in the 70’s to satisfy public demand and there designs monumental works. In 1976, he becomes a professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Copenhagen. For several decades, the most renowned galleries, the greatest museums, show his works, in France and abroad. Robert Jacobsen equally practised engraving and illustrated works.
He passed away at his home in Tagelund, Denmark in January 1993.
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To read about the artist :
- « R. Jacobsen Sculptures 1961-1962 », P. Descargues, Ed. Galerie de France, 1963
- « 33ème Biennale de Venise », cat. d'expo. collective, Venise, 1966
- « Robert Jacobsen », G. Jespersen, J. M. Sterneisens Forlag, 1978
- « R. Jacobsen, créateur d’espace », R. Soderberg, Kalejdoskop förlag, Malmö 1989
- « Rétrospective R. J. », cat. d’expo. B. Ceysson & X. Girard, Rodez, Evreux 1991
- « Werke aus 50 Jahren », J. C. Jensen & autres, 2 Vol., J. Thorbecke Verlag 1992
- « A comme Amitié Robert Jacobsen - Le Grand Fer », P. Descargues, Ed. Aréa, 1993
- « Jacobsen - Passeport 92-93 », P. Descargues, Ed. Fragments, Paris, 1993
- « R. J. Samtaler 1947-1991 », P. Descargues, Heede & Moestrup, Copenhague 1996
- « R. J. & Paris », M. Hojsgaard, Statens Museum for Kunst, Forlaget Bjerggaard, 2001
To read from the artist :
- « Robert Jacobsen », E. Ionescu, Ed. Stedelijk Museum, 1960
- « Entretien avec R. Jacobsen », P. Descargue, Ed. Galerie de France, Paris 1963
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Stamp by Robert Jacobsen
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ A tribute to...
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A tribute to Robert Jacobsen
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Le sculpteur danois était venu s’y installer en 1969. Robert Jacobsen meurt d’une crise cardiaque, dans sa demeure, le 26 janvier 1993 à Tagelund (ouest de Egtved, est du Jutland, Danemark). Il avait 80 ans. Il repose en paix dans le cimetière de cette toute petite ville. En son hommage, avec respect, nous y déposons une simple fleur blanche.
"La soudure fut ma chance. Ainsi je suis devenu un sculpteur de ferraille. C'est tout, il n'y a pas à broder, ni de belles histoires à inventer. " - Robert Jacobsen
"Les sculptures de Jacobsen sont de véritables architectures d’espaces saisis dans leur mobilité et leur inflexible expansion. " - Pierre Volboudt
"Peu à peu, l’artiste s’est orienté vers une sobriété de la forme non sans renier la source autochtone de son art. " - Jacques Busse
"La simplicité, Jacobsen la respirait et la recherchait tout à la fois. " - Federico Mayor
"Rester au plus près des choses, par les moyens les plus simples. " - Robert Jacobsen
"Si je veux utiliser tout ce fer, c’est pour qu'il n'en reste plus pour fabriquer des tanks et des canons. " - Robert Jacobsen
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