biography
pronunciation:
[yaw(r)n]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1914–73)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Jutland, Denmark. He studied art in Paris from 1936 with Léger and Le Corbusier, and in 1948–50 founded the ‘Cobra’ group (Co[penhagen], Br[ussels], A[msterdam]) which aimed to exploit fantastic imagery derived from the unconscious, not directed by reason. |
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