biography of Alfred Julio JENSEN (1903-1981)

Birth place: Guatemala City, Guatemala

Death place: Glen Ridge, NJ

Addresses: Glen Ridge, NJ

Profession: Painter

Studied: San Diego Fine Arts Sch., 1925; Hofmann Sch., Munich, Germany, 1927-28; …cole Scandinave, Paris, France, 1929-34; Charles Despiau; Charles Dufresne; Othon Friesz; Marcel Gromaire; Andre Masson.

Exhibited: John Heller Gal., NYC, 1953 (first solo); Corcoran Gal. biennial, 1963; WMAA, 1963-77; PAFA Ann., 1964; Venice Biennale, 1964; "Post Painterly Abstraction," LACMA, 1964; Int. Biennial Exhib. Paintings, Tokyo; "Plus by Minus," Albright-Knox Art Gal., Buffalo, NY, 1968; Albright-Knox Art Gal., "Paintings and Diagrams From the Years 1957-77" (traveling to major American mus.); Documenta IV & V, Kassel, Germany, 1968, 1972; NJ, 1980 (first major retrospective). Awards: Tamarind fellow, 1965.

Work: Guggenheim Mus.; MoMA; Dayton A. Inst., Ohio; Rose Art Mus., Brandeis Univ.; Gal. Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland. Commissions: mural for Time, Inc.

Comments: Came to U.S. in 1921. While studying in Munich, he gained the patronage of Mrs. Saidie May. They studied in Paris together, traveled and collected art until her death in 1951. Teaching: Maryland Inst., 1958. Jensen created diagrams to Goethe's Farbenlehre; a set of 20 lithographs, the Pythagorean Notebook, 1965, and Hekatompedon, a series of gouaches, 1965.

Sources: WW73; Falk, Exh. Record Series.