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Jasper Johns

Vereinigte Staaten · Künstler · Geboren 1930 · Alter 96

Jasper Johns wird in 42 Sprachen etwa 541 Mal am Tag gelesen.

Ein typischer Tag, 30 Tage bis 16. September 2026

Der mittlere Tag der gezählten Tage, damit eine Nachrichtenwoche ihn nicht verschieben kann. Die Linie darunter zeigt die letzten 361 Tage, ein Punkt pro Tag.

Stimmt etwas nicht?

Jasper Johns, Jr. (* 15. Mai 1930 in Augusta, Georgia) ist ein vielseitiger US-amerikanischer Maler, Plastiker, Bühnen- und Kostümbildner. Er gilt als ein Wegbereiter der Pop Art, ohne dass sein bildnerisches Werk dieser Stilrichtung zuzurechnen ist.

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Stationen eines Lebens

2011Presidential Medal of FreedomAuszeichnung2008“To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.”Eigene Worteas quoted in photo-exhibition 'Cy Twombly', museum Marseille Amsterdam, autumn 2008

1993Praemium ImperialeAuszeichnung1990“I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.”Eigene WorteQuote from Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 202

1978“Once, I made a kind of sculpture of a flag in bronze: it was an edition of three, I think. One of them was given on some occasion to President Kennedy.”Eigene WorteSeptember 1978Jasper Johns Interviewed/ Jasper Johns interviewed Part II, Peter Fuller, Art Montly, London, August/September 1978

1977“He Robert Rauschenberg was a kind of enfant terrible at the time [around 1960] and I thought of him as an accomplished professional.”Eigene Worte16. Oktober 1977Once Established, says Jasper Johns...,Grace Glueck, New York Times, 16 October 1977, sec. 2 pp. 1-31

1973“I have attempted to develop my thinking in such a way that the work I've done is not me - not to confuse my feelings with what I produced.”Eigene WorteMärz 1973Jasper Johns: 'I have attempted to develop my thinking', Vivien Raynor, Artnews 72 no. 3, March 1973, p. 20-22

1970“His [Marcel Duchamp's] idea was that anything could be art by focusing the mind to think of it as art.”Eigene Worte30. Dezember 1970Daily Close-up, after the Flag, Roberta Brandes Gratz, New York Post, 30 December 1970, p. 25

1930Geboren15. Mai 1930

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In ihren eigenen Worten 10

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Jasper Johns
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10 Aussagen, neueste zuerst
  1. Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

    2008, as quoted in photo-exhibition 'Cy Twombly', museum Marseille Amsterdam, autumn 2008, Eigene Worte

  2. To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

    2008, as quoted in photo-exhibition 'Cy Twombly', museum Marseille Amsterdam, autumn 2008, Eigene Worte

  3. [to see the painting]..as an object, as a real thing in itself. (quote on his Flag-paintings)

    1990, Quote from: Abstract Art, Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson 1990, p. 200, Eigene Worte

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Auszeichnungen

Presidential Medal of Freedom2011
Praemium Imperiale1993
National Medal of Arts
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Geboren 1930 · Alter 96

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