Page "Asger Jorn" Paragraph 5

In 1936 he traveled ( on a BSA motorbike he had scraped together enough money to buy ) to Paris to become a student of Kandinsky.

However when he discovered that Kandinsky was in straitened circumstances, barely able to sell his own paintings, Jorn decided to join Fernand Léger's Académie Contemporaine ; it was during this period that he turned away from figurative painting and turned to abstract art.

In 1937 he joined Le Corbusier in working on the Palais des Temps Noveaux at the 1937 Paris Exhibition.

He returned again to Denmark in the summer of 1937.

He again traveled to Paris in the summer of 1938, before returning to Denmark, traveling to Løkken, Silkeborg and Copenhagen.