Robert Julius Tommy Jacobsen (4 June 1912, Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 - 26 January 1993, Tågelund) was a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 sculptor

Sculpture

Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

 and painter. The Danish Robert award was named after him.

Biography

He lived in France from 1947 - 1969. From 1962 - 1981 he was professor at the Kunstakademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

. In 1969 he moved to Tågelund, west of Egtved

Egtved

Egtved is a village with a population of 2,207 near Vejle, Denmark in Vejle municipality in the Danish Region of Southern Denmark.Nearby is Tørskind Gravel Pit, a spectacular sculpture park....

, Denmark

Denmark

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. From 1976 to 1985 he was professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Art

Royal Danish Academy of Art

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has provided a practice-oriented complement to the scholarly investigation of the arts carried out at Danish universities for more than 250 years, playing a crucial part in the development of the distinctive tradition of the art of Denmark.- History :The Royal...

, Copenhagen.
From 1986 to 1991 he worked with Jean Clareboudt to create a sculpture park at Tørskind Gravel Pit

Tørskind Gravel Pit

Tørskind Gravel Pit is a former gravel pit converted to a sculpture park near Egtved, Vejle, Denmark.The sculptures were created by Robert Jacobsen and Jean Clareboudt over five years up to 1991 and feature steel, granite and timber.-External links:*...

 near Egtved and Vejle

Vejle

Vejle is a town in Denmark, in the southeast of the Jutland Peninsula at the head of Vejle Fjord, where the Vejle and Grejs Rivers and their valleys converge. It is the site of the councils of Vejle Municipality and the Region of Southern Denmark...

. He worked closely together with his friend and son in law, Bernard Leauté. Jacobsen also had a connection to Asger Jorn and the CoBrA artists, but he never was a member of their group. He died in 1993 at home in Tågelund.

It was planned to raise a 60 meter high sculpture in Copenhagen in the year 2012, financed by Robert Jacobsen's foundation but the city council

Copenhagen municipality

Copenhagen Municipality is the largest of the municipalities making up the city of Copenhagen. It lies at the center of Copenhagen and contains the old historic city....

did not want the sculpture.

... everyone, of course, must know with whom he is dealing. A former badminton champion, a film actor, a former sailor, a whale butcher, an :ex-barman, an antiquarian, a musician (jazz to be sure) a chaufeur, a confectioner and a croupler, a grandfather at thirty-seven, the Danish :Robert Jacobsen is certainly one of the best sculptors of our time, a worthy successor of the Rumanian Brâncuşi, of the Russian Pevsner, of :the American Calder and of one or two others whom you may choose according to you tastes...|

Roger Bordier - Catalogue "LE MOUVEMENT", Paris, 1955

Artwork

Robert Jacobsen's art is represented, among others, in the following museums:

• Musee d'Art Wallon (Liege, Belgium)
• Museo de Arte Moderna (São Paulo, Brazil)
• Von der Heydt Museum (Wuppertal, Germany)
• Wilhelm Hack Museum (Ludwigshafen, Germany)
• Lembruck Museum (Duisburg, Germany)
• Sculptors Museum (Glaskasten, Marl, Germany)
• "Kunsthalle" exhibition hall Kiel (Kiel, Germany)
• Neue Pinakothek, (Munich, Germany)
• town gallery Lenbachhouse (Munich, Germany)
• "Kunsthalle" exhibition hall Emden donation Henri Nannen (Emden, Germany)
• Didrichsenin taidemuseo (Helsinki, Finland)
• Musee National d'Art Modern (Paris, France)
• Centre Pompidou (Paris, France)
• Musee de Peinture et de Sculpture (Grenoble, France)
• Musee des Beaux-Art (Rennes, France)
• Fond National d'Art Contemporain (France)
• Musee Rodin Paris (France)
• Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, The Netherlands)
• Nationalgalerie (Oslo, Norway)
• Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Musee des Beaux-Art (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland)
• Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum (Budapest, Hungary)
• Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh, USA)
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, USA)
• Fondation Herzog (New York, USA)
• Carnegie Institute (Philadelphia, USA)