Cave Canem
Horst Janssen (Oldenburg 1929 - Hamburg 1995)
Lot-No. 187
Woodcut in colours, 49 x 75 cm, lo. ri. autographed and dat. JH 61 as well as num. 17/40, matted and framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - One of the most important modern German draughtsmen and graphic artists. J. studied at the Hamburg Landeskunstschule in A. Mahlau's classes of liberal and applied arts. He merged the traditions of the Old Masters and the achievements of modernism to create his own pictorial language. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Oldenburg a. others. Lit.: Der Neue Rump, Blessin 'H.J. Leben u. Werk' a. others.
Horst Janssen: Cave Canem
Horst Janssen (Oldenburg 1929 - Hamburg 1995)
Cave Canem
Lot-No. 187
Woodcut in colours, 49 x 75 cm, lo. ri. autographed and dat. JH 61 as well as num. 17/40, matted and framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - One of the most important modern German draughtsmen and graphic artists. J. studied at the Hamburg Landeskunstschule in A. Mahlau's classes of liberal and applied arts. He merged the traditions of the Old Masters and the achievements of modernism to create his own pictorial language. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Oldenburg a. others. Lit.: Der Neue Rump, Blessin 'H.J. Leben u. Werk' a. others.