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Silkeborg

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Silkeborg (sĭl`kəbôr'), city (1992 pop. 35,027), Århus co., central Denmark, on the Gudenå River. It is a tourist and health resort surrounded by beautiful lakes and woods. Its industries produce paper, textiles, and beer. Nearby is a memorial to the playwright Kaj Munk Munk, Kaj (kī mngk), 1898–1944, Danish playwright, a clergyman.
..... Click the link for more information. , who was murdered (1944) in Silkeborg by Nazi terrorists.


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Weston follows this Sydney chapter with one devoted (the word is intentional) to Utzon's idea to build a museum at Silkeborg, in Jutland, for COBRA artist Asger Jorn -- a radical underground cavern like some troglodytic inversion of Le Corbusier's Ronchamp chapel.
Utzon: inspiration * vision * architecture. (Singular Achievement) by Ryan, Raymund / The Architectural Review
A six-page pamphlet was required to put Join's visual art in the context of a wealth of other activities: the array of artists' groups and journals he co-founded or joined; the hundreds of essays and books he authored; the international collection of contemporary art he assembled to expand a small museum in Silkeborg, Denmark Join also undertook major research on ancient Scandinavian art under the auspices of his provocatively named Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism.
Asger Jorn. (Reviews) by Caniglia, Julie / Artforum International
In Silkeborg, for instance, the chair of the housewives' association, Grethe Madsen, realized that much of the rubbish that was thrown away could be re-used: the rags and iron in factories and the food waste as pigfeed on farms.
Breaking up the boulder of unemployment: in the 1930's, the Oxford ... by Jorgensen, Keld / For A Change
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