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Jørgen Haugen Sørensen is regarded as one of Denmark's most important sculptors of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
At the age of fifteen, he began an apprenticeship as a plasterer and potter, gaining the practical craftsmanship that would form the foundation of his artistic career.
At nineteen, he made his debut at the Spring Exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg with three sculptures, marking the beginning of a long and prolific career.
Although his early training was rooted in traditional craftsmanship, he quickly developed a distinctive artistic language of his own.
During the 1950s and 1960s, his sculptures were primarily figurative, depicting both animals and people with an intense, expressive, and at times uncompromising realism. Among his best-known subjects are slaughterhouse scenes and portrayals of the human condition, charged with powerful emotional intensity.
Towards the end of the 1950s, his work began to change direction as he experimented with ceramics and more abstract forms. From the 1970s onwards, he frequently worked in marble and granite, materials he carved with uncompromising precision, creating sculptures that are at once monumental, angular and raw.
His sculptures often explore the human condition - life and death, suffering, violence and anxiety - while also addressing social criticism, absurdity, and at times, a dark sense of humour.
Marble
1977
80 × 60 × 170 cm
The artwork can be found in the promenade corridor (Vandrehallen) by the Auditorium.
Marble
1987
60 × 60 × 135 cm
About the Artwork
Jørgen Haugen Sørensen often explored contrasts such as life and death in his work. It may therefore come as a surprise that he created Sten på Sten, a sculpture in which a single material is repeated to form a sculptural composition.
The artwork can be found in front of the lift by Salon 32.
