EST. 2019
Purpose
Fostering and putting to use four decades of artistry, activism, philanthropy, social justice and legacy, now helping artists and social causes in our communities.
Fund Mission
The Marcus Jansen Foundation is a fund that opened in 2019 to focus on assisting marginalized community art organizations seeking to provide exposure to less economically advantaged through a period of COVID.
The Fund now also aims to assist in various Art causes, tied to Autism and other mental health issues seeking art and or music as a way to express. The Foundation Fund is part of the Collaboratory in Fort Myers, Florida.
Fostering and putting to use four decades of artistry, activism, philanthropy, social justice and legacy, now helping artists and social causes in our communities.
Fund Mission
The Marcus Jansen Foundation is a fund that opened in 2019 to focus on assisting marginalized community art organizations seeking to provide exposure to less economically advantaged through a period of COVID.
The Fund now also aims to assist in various Art causes, tied to Autism and other mental health issues seeking art and or music as a way to express. The Foundation Fund is part of the Collaboratory in Fort Myers, Florida.
Marcus Jansen on the corner of Prince Street in New York City in 1999
|
Elissa Pannone talks with Victoria Webber about Marcus Jansen early beginnings
in the 1990's our educational series "On the Record." |
About the Founder, Marcus Jansen
Bronx native artist and Fort Myers Florida resident, was discovered by Art Historian and former Museum Director of the American Vanguard Exhibitions Europe 1961, Jerome A. Donson; who introduced the 1950 American action painters such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg and others in Europe and referred to Jansen's work as being "reminiscent of the Ash-Can School” while coining him the “innovator of modern expressionism" in his first book Modern Urban Expressionism, The Art of Marcus Antonius Jansen published in 2006.
A former US Army soldier and Desert Storm Veteran, Jansen was born in New York City in 1968 and later moved to Germany where he resided and was educated. In 1999, he returned to his native New York and started selling his paintings on Prince street and Broadway as part of the often referred to “Princestreetkings” in lower Manhattan. Over the last thirty years, Jansen transformed his life in to becoming one of “the most important American Painters of his generation,” according to two time Documenta Kassel curator and Art Historian, Prof Dr Manfred Schneckenburger.
Jansen shows his work globally and is collected in some of the most prestigious Museum Institutions around the world and is represented Internationally by www.AlmineRech.com. The Foundation Fund is directed by the artist and his pianist wife Sabrina Jansen.
Visit his studio page for more: www.marcusjansen.com
|
|
|
