(ANSA) – PIETRASANTA (LUCCA), 19 NOV – The Danish sculptor Jorgen Haugen Sorensen, 87 years old, died in Pietrasanta (Lucca), where he had lived since 1973. To give the news, explains the Municipality of Pietrasanta, was his wife, the sculptress Eli Benveniste.
Sorensen’s works are present in major Danish museums (including the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen and the Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst in Humlebaek), as well as in museums in Sweden, Norway, United States (Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh , Pa and Moma, New York), Turkey, England and Italy. Many of his works can be found in public and private collections especially in Denmark, but also in Italy, Korea, Turkey and Switzerland. In 1977 he was awarded the Biancamano European prize in Milan and in 1979 the Thorvaldsen medal in Denmark. In 2016 he received the prize of the Circolo Fratelli Rosselli. In Pietrasanta His last major solo exhibition dates back to 2017. One of his works, ‘The Crowd – La Folla’, which also gave the exhibition its title, was donated by the artist to the city while the sketch of ‘The angular ones carry, The Smooth ones Slide ‘(1984) intended for the City of Copenhagen is located in the Museum of Sketches. (HANDLE).
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