Martin Kaalund Jørgensen

MARTIN KAALUND-JØRGENSEN (Lihme, Denmark, 1889- Copenhagen, 1952).
"Cubist still life", 1919.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner.
It presents craquelures.
Measurements: 55 x 41 cm; 68 x 54 cm (frame).

The style of Martin Kaalund Jørgensen, completely inserted in the vanguard of the beginning of the 20th century, is framed in the expressionism, showing influences of the French fauvism, Edvard Munch and Vilhelm Lundstrøm. However, the still life in bidding goes fully into cubism, being a direct tribute to the plastic and aesthetic research of Braque and Picasso, who by that time had already settled in the Parisian art circuit. The result is, therefore, an analytical representation that decomposes space and objects into planes. In it the synthesis is no longer reduced to what the eye sees, but to what the mind knows there is.

Martin Kaalund Jørgensen trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He made study trips, including stays in Italy (1915), France (1921) and Holland (1929). He was a leading figure in the association "Frie jydske Malere" (Free Jute Painters). He was the first teacher of Asger Jorn, who was greatly inspired by him. His works have been exhibited in the Charlottenborg and are in museum collections such as the Silkeborg Kunstmuseum (which owns many of his landscapes) and the Frederiksborgmuseet (with a part of his portraits).