Per Kirkeby

Person · Open Library

Works

121

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

DK

Active from

1938-09-01

Active to

2018-05-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1

Total plays

2

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,423x

2. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 24,136x

3. <b>lmerTest</b> Package: Tests in Linear Mixed Effects Models

   · 2017 · cited 20,747x

4. Tissue-based map of the human proteome

   · 2015 · cited 14,092x

5. Molecular portraits of human breast tumours

   · 2000 · cited 12,719x

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Quotes

• “Landscapes are about beauty and death. The only way you can define beauty.. ..is to know that death is hiding behind it. This is what haunts you when you’re doing a so-called landscape painting. -”
• “What I am after is 'bravura, an attempt to do something beyond the truth'.. .I do not seek truth before bravura, I seek it on the other side. Naturally it is a basic risk to run, the internal insecurity, where nothing is measurable, no solid standard exists any longer, and one can hardly discern the difference between commercial bravura and true trapdoor, but it is the only way of escaping good taste and narrow certification. The light of ambivalence is a heavenly one.”
• “it doesn't care too much if it's from the 60's or from last year - it's kind of the same thing [in his paintings].. ..apparently there are certain structures, certain ways of organizing a painting that's there, that I'm born with as a painter.”
• “But through the 1990's I developed signatures, somewhat radical and unmistakably mine. Francis Picabia remains my hero. The more you dive into his work, the wilder it becomes. He painted the skewed Cubist paintings that we all know. Then came the kitsch works. And he ended up doing these strange, abstract works that are impossible to grasp. Whenever you think you’ve got him, he’s always moved along. That’s what I aspire to do.”
• “A structure-less painting is, to me, a painting that does not matter. Structure mirrors your degree of responsibility toward the work. You can’t just let it float around in pretty colors. It needs a kind of core. But this is an inner structure. It does correspond to being a geologist — the metaphor may be trite, but it works. Like when you see these breathtaking mountains in strange colors in eastern Greenland. As a geologist, you want to know what exactly they’re doing.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Per

Gender

male

Citizenship

Danish Realm

Place of birth

Copenhagen

Place of death

Copenhagen

Occupation

printmaker

Educated at

University of Copenhagen

Employer

Goethe University Frankfurt

Languages spoken

Danish

Award

Order of the Dannebrog

Participant in

Documenta IX

Field of work

art of sculpture

Movement

neo-expressionism

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