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In the beginning Egill Jacobsen pianted naturalistic, and from 1932 until
1933 he studied at the Academy of Art in Copenhagen.
In 1935 he traveled to Paris saw Picasso and returned with lots of new
inspiration.
From then Egill Jacobsen left the naturalistic style of painting, and
the following years he experimented with new ways of expressions. The
spontanious abstract-figurative paintings Mask ans Objects
are from this period. In 1937 Egill Jacobsen painted Ophobning
as a reation against the tense situation in Europe, and the three mentioned
paintings founded the spontanic way of expression.
The mask with its many possible interpretations inspired by Picasso and
by folkart from Africa and the decorative masks of the cultures living
in the Pacific Ocean, soon became the most preferable motif of Egill Jacobsen.
The mask as motif and in particular the spontanious way of expression
inspired many artists connected to Egill Jacobsen and in the end of the
thirties a group was founded characterized by this way of expression -
a group that was later to become the danish part of Cobra.
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