Artist Information
Artist
Flemming Jorgenson, RCA (1934-2009)Role
PainterDate made
Feb 4, 1986Time Period
20th CenturyNotes
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Born in Aalborg, Denmark, Flemming Jorgensen was a Canadian painter of Abstract landscapes. He immigrated to Canada as a young man studying commercial art with the Expressionist artist Herbert Siebner (1925-2003) when he first arrived in Victoria. By the 1960s, he was working in painting, sculpture and printmaking. He was a member of The Point Group of artists (later to become the Modernist Victoria-based group, The Limners), and became an influential and well respected artist in the community. He was an accomplished teacher in many of Victoria’s art schools and he also co-founded the Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts, where he served as director from 1984-1996.
He exhibited widely including at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, as well as galleries in Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal, Seattle, Copenhagen, Switzerland, France and England. He was awarded an Honorary PhD. from the University of Victoria.