NAME: Marcus Antonius Jansen
BIRTH PLACE: New York, New York
BIOGRAPHY
American Born Painter 1968, New York, NY
Marcus Antonius Jansen, a painter who had his first art exhibition in 1974 at New York City's Park Avenue Lever House at age six during a student art competition. Born in Manhattan and spending his first years in the Bronx and Long Island NY, Jansen began his artistic career as a commercial painter in Germany where he grew up He later, managed to transform his life from a soldier in the first Gulf War to one of today's leading painters.
His work can be found in permanent collections such as the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Russia, The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art in Taiwan and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, in Kansas. Educated in Germany and the United States, Jansen grew up speaking English, German and conversational Dutch. As a child, his family discussions often centered around political debate which he later incorporated in to most of his work. His personal travels extend throughout Western and Eastern Europe.
During his eight years of military career he was stationed in places such as Southwest and Southeast Asia. It wasn't until after his Gulf War assignment, where he experienced difficulties that that led him to transform his life away from the Military to the arts. Art historian Professor Jerome Allan Donson discovered Jansen's work in 2003, he was quoted as saying, "You are my last find".
Donson directed various international exhibitions at Museums including the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and The Guggenheim New York, arranging traveling shows for action painters such as Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Oskar Kokoshka and Franz Kline.
