Steen Krarup Jensen, Date of Birth
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sculptor, poet, song writer, social critic
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About Steen Krarup Jensen
- Steen Krarup Jensen (born April 12, 1950 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish sculptor, poet, song writer and social critic.
- He is educated in sculpture at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts during the period from 1971 to 1978.
- In 1977 he received Viggo Jarls Legacy. Steen Krarup Jensen has worked with marble and granite and been experimenting with a lot of other materials in mobiles and assemblages.
- He is also one of the two inventors of the asphaltophone (see musical road). Steen Krarup Jensen was the founder of Danske Billedkunstneres Fagforening, a union of Danish sculptors.
- In connection to that, he became famous in 1981 when he blew up a sculpture with dynamite as a protest against the living conditions of Danish sculptors. As a writer he has written a large number of texts for variety shows, songs and newspaper chronicles. In 2007, Steen Krarup Jensen and composer Jakob Freud-Magnus won a Danish contest by writing a suggestion for a new national anthem.Steen Krarup Jensen is the father of jazz musician Simon Jensen.
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