- Marcus Antonius Jansen
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Marcus Jansen Born 1968
ManhattanNationality American Field painting, Training Berufsfachschule fur Gestaltung 1985 Awards Who's Who in American Art Website marcusjansen.com Marcus Jansen (born 1968, Manhattan, New York)[1] is an American born painter.[2] He attended Berufsfachschule fuer Gestaltung in Mönchengladbach in 1985.
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Career
Marcus Jansen attended the Berufsfachschule für Gestaltung at the Gewerbliche Schulen der Stadt Mönchengladbach in 1985 and later apprenticed as a commercial painter at the Berufsschule für Malerei from 1986 until graduating in 1989. In 1990, Jansen joined the US army, being deployed in Iraq and Saudi Arabia with the 18th airborne division of Fort Bragg North Carolina. He started painting in the early 1980s during the ongoing graffiti art movement from New York.
His first book, "Modern Urban-Expressionism",[3] was published in 2006 by his then French Gallery "American Art Gallery" in Paris. The foreword is written by former Museum director and Art Historian as well as Author of the American Vanguard Exhibitions in Europe 1961, Jerome A. Donson.
Jansen's work is represented by 101/exhibit in Miami's Design District.
Collections
Collections of art that own examples of Jansen's work include: New Britain Museum of American Art[4] in New Britain, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art[5] in Kansas the Moscow Museum of Modern Art[6] in Moscow and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts[7] in Taiwan.
Awards
- 2005 Angel of the Arts Award Alliance for the Arts New artist of the year.[8]
- 2010 Angel of the Arts Award Alliance for the Arts Visual artist of the year.[9]
Personal life
Jansen grew up in the Bronx and Long Island. His family moved to Mönchen-Gladbach in Germany when he was 10 years old.[10]
References
- ^ Contemporary-Art-Dialogue
- ^ The Saatchi Gallery (2010-03-06). "Marcus Antonius Jansen :: Saatchi Online - Show your art to the world". Saatchi-gallery.co.uk. http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Marcus%20Antonius%20Jansen/5593.html. Retrieved 2010-09-05.
- ^ Jansen, Marcus Antonius (2006), Modern urban-expressionism Modern urban-expressionism: the art of Marcus Antonius Jansen, American Art Gallery, ISBN 9780615133720, http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/213811180?page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsiris-libraries.si.edu%2Fipac20%2Fipac.jsp%3Fmenu%3Dsearch%26aspect%3Dsubtab114%26npp%3D20%26ipp%3D20%26spp%3D20%26profile%3Dliball%26ri%3D%26term%3D%26index%3DCALLL%26x%3D0%26y%3D0%26aspect%3Dsubtab114%26index%3DISBNP%26term%3D061513372X%26checksum%3De258f011d7f96b29da1534ef801e89d6&title=Smithsonian+Institution&linktype=opac&detail=SMI%3ASmithsonian+Institution%3AFederal%2FNational+Gov/ Modern urban-expressionism
- ^ http://www.scribd.com/doc/32717975/ New Britain Museum of American Art
- ^ http://collections.kemperart.org/THA391*1$71 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
- ^ http://www.artfacts.net/en/institution/moscow-museum-of-modern-art-mmoma-8587/overview.html Moscow Museum of Modern Art
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Urban-Expressionism-Marcus-Antonius-Jansen/dp/061513372X/National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art
- ^ "Marcus Jansen". Lawrence Asher Gallery. http://www.lawrenceasher.com/Jansen.htm. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
- ^ "Marcus Jansen". Marcus Jansen. http://www.marcusjansen.com. Retrieved 2010-09-05.
- ^ Art Interview Online Magazine, Berlin, Germany (2007-09-25). "ONLINE Magazine". ART Interview. http://www.art-interview.com/Issue_011/interview_Jansen_Marcus.html. Retrieved 2010-09-05.
External links
Categories:- 1968 births
- Living people
- American painters
- Contemporary painters
- American painter stubs
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