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Originally Mogens Balle wanted to be an architect, but he left these studies
to become a painter instead. For a short while he recieved tuition at
a private school of art, and 22 years old he debuted in 1943 at the Exhibition
of Autumn. The style at this time was naturalistic but during travel to
Paris in 1946 he was inspired by the cubistic style of Picasso and started
painting in the same style. In 1947 he attended the small group exhibition
called Spiralen with these new expressions, and when Asger Jorn joined
Spiralen i 1949, Mogens Balle was introduced to Cobra.
During Cobra time the art of Mogens Balle became still more abstract,
influenced by mainly Asger Jorn, Ejler Bille, Egill Jacobsen and Carl-Henning
Pedersen. The paintings of Mogens Balle went from being a parti-colored
world with webs of lines in which very few figures lived to be far more
freely circles of lines from which the figures could grow.
After Cobra Mogens Balle continued the free way of expression, though
he sometimes returned for a short periods of time to a more cubistic style.
He held contact to the Belgian Dotremont, and together they painted several
dessin-mots (pictures of words) and other graphic works.
Mogens Balle also did several public decorations, on some of them he worked
together with the artist Grete Balle to whom he was married.
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