Nationality Danish Name Johan Nissen | Role Artist Known for Painting, Digital art | |
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Born July 20, 1958 ( 1958-07-20 ) Copenhagen | ||
Johan Nissen (born July 20, 1958) is a Danish New Media artist specializing in Digital Art.
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Early years
Johan Nissen grew up on “Almindegaard in the Danish town Roskilde with his father Johan Nissen a Squire, a Third Degree Freemason and with his mother, a schoolteacher who was the first women in Denmark to teach carpentry.They send him to Steenhus kostskole, a public boarding school, where he graduated High school. He then went to Israel where he joined the kibbutz life and learned Hebrew and worked as a volunteer.
After Johan Nissen had received a college degree in Denmark he moved to Germany and later to Somerset in England, where he took interest in the Roman Culture and art.
Career
He went back to Denmark where he studied Art History, after the first year he went traveling to Spain. He stayed on for several months working in Real estate, on the Balearic Islands, Ibiza. He taught himself Spanish and was employed by a German Millionaire to work for 5 years as a butler.
With his employer, a Photographer and master-student of Joseph Beuys, at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, he traveled Europe and during this time he became friends with Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk, Grace Jones.
When he returned to Denmark, he started a nightclub in Copenhagen called "The Bridge" and worked with DJ management, Theater and Art. During this time Johan Nissen became lifelong friends with the Danish illustrator Thomas Warming and Documentary film director Tao Nørager
In 2007 he went for one month to Spanish Harlem, New York and got inspired by American graffiti an Pop arts, later in 2008 Nissen started a Shirt company, Nizen in Copenhagen with digital prints, limited edition, featuring his own art.