Marcus Jansen
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| Born | 1968 New York, New York |
| Nationality | American/German |
| Education | Kunstgewerbe Schule Berufskolleg für Technik und Medien am Platz der Republik in Mönchengladbach |
| Known for | painting, |
| Movement | Modern Expressionism - Neo Expressionism |
| Awards | Arte Laguna Art Prize, Venice |
| Website | www.unitaspace.com |
Jansen (born 1968, Manhattan, New York) is an American born painter. He attended the Kunstgewerbe Schule Berufskolleg für Technik und Medien am Platz der Republik in Mönchengladbach Germany in 1985 where spent many of his young adult years.
Marcus Jansen is considered a pioneer in a new form of modern expressionism stated Art Historian Jerome A.Donson. Jansen took part in his first art exhibition at the Lever House in Manhattan at age six after his painting of lion was selected by a local students school competition while living in Laurelton, Queens, NY. He started doing art in the early 1980s in Germany during an ongoing graffiti art movement from New York City after being introduced to graffiti artist WEST ONE. Jansen was raised bilingual by a father from Germany and Mother from the West Indies and was educated in Germany. In the late 1990's he managed to merge his own history, political/social commentary and background from the worlds he grew up in and from what was called "graffiti" to crossover of contemporary expressionism or neo-expressionism in painting with roots in movements of various European and American expressive art styles.
He returned to painting after his Gulf War Service in 1990 - 1991 where he deployed with the Airborne Units at Fort Bragg NC. Jansen's first book, "Modern Urban-Expressionism", was published in 2006 by his then French dealer Jean-Marc Alphan in Paris France where he was introduced to Art Auctioneer Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr The foreword in the book refers to Jansen as the "innovator of "Modern-Expressionism", was written by the former Museum director of traveling exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York and the American Vanguard Exhibitions in Europe 1961 Jerome A. Donson who discovered Jansen in 2004.
Donson arranged international traveling exhibitions with action painters like, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Jansen's first US showcase was at Madison Square Gardens Film & Art Festival in 1999. He has shown in important exhibitions and Biennials in Russia, South Africa, Europe, South America and Asia. In 2008, Jansen was commissioned by Warner Brothers Hollywood for an interpretation of the 1939 story The Wizard of Oz honoring the companies 80th Anniversary and later was noted in Who's Who in American Art and became more widely known for his "Absolut Blank" bottle for "Absolut Vodka", as part of the next Generation of Absolut artist's as he joined the names like Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Damien Hirst. In 2012, Jansen's work "Creeping Obstacles in Kansas", appeared on the cover of No. 94 of the New American Paintings alumni selection by juror Dan Cameron, founder of the Prospect New Orleans Biennial inc., which made Jansen the first Florida based artist to ever do so.
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