Auctions → 26 September 2020: Art → Art → Horst Janssen: Portrait of the actor Henning Schlüter
Pencil drawing, 14,5 x 10,5 cm, ri. middle monogr. JH, on the lower left dedicated to Henning Schlüter, 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.