Jens Jørgen Thorsen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jens Jørgen Thorsen

Danish artist

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1932

Place of Birth: Holstebro, Central Denmark Region, Denmark

Date of Death: 15-Nov-2000

Profession: screenwriter, actor, painter, art historian, film director, film producer, film editor

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Jens Jørgen Thorsen

  • Jens Jørgen Thorsen (2 February 1932 Holstebro – 15 November 2000) was a Danish artist, director, and jazz musician whose works sometimes created controversy. Thorsen began his artistic career attending periodically the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
  • Jens Jørgen Thorsen was part of the Situationist International Movement, in particular his happenings and collaboration with Jørgen Nash are well documented.
  • Thorsen also wrote, directed, and starred in a number of films, the most notable of them being Stille dage i Clichy (Quiet Days in Clichy), based on the Henry Miller novel. In painting, Thorsen painted a number of abstract works, which have become increasingly collectible.
  • He also stirred up controversy with a work depicting Jesus in a manner some considered pornographic.
  • Thorsen planned a film called The Many Faces of Jesus, later The Sex Life of Jesus, and was to have involved both heterosexual and homosexual acts.
  • The film plans met with strong national and international protests and accusations of blasphemy so the Danish Film Academy withdrew its financial support.
  • The film was to have been made in Britain, but it faced intense opposition from Christian morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse, pressure groups, as well as from the Queen [2], then Prime Minister James Callaghan, the Archbishop of Canterbury Donald Coggan, and Pope Paul VI, who called the film "an insult ...
  • which transforms Christ into sacrilegious bait for filthy falseness".
  • The Return of Jesus (1992) (a completely different project) was made after the ban on the original project was rescinded in 1990.He was also a jazz musician and co-founder of the group Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband.

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