Janssen, Horst Waldemar

(11/14/1929 Hamburg-1995) (Germany)

   Painter, graphic artist, draughtsman, and poster designer. Studied at the Hamburg Art College. Best known for the quality of his drawings, he worked in an abstract and surreal style.

   Reproductions: Brief an Mirjam portfolio; [27] etchings; Weiermair, 1995: pp. 160-161 . [Corsetted women and a phallus]; Klinger, 1982c: plate X . [Corsetted women in crowded interior setting]; Klinger, 1982c: plate XIII [C]. L'Heure de Mylene; 1962; etching; Gorsen, 1970: fig. 1633 [B] / Philips, 1979: fig. 128 [B]. [Nudes in elevator]; Klinger, 1982c: plate IX [C]. Post scriptum portfolio [themes of death and sex]; [14] etchings; 1984; Weiermair, 1995: pp. 162-163 [B]. [Untitled]; etchings; Kro-nhausen, 1968: pp. 146, 147 [B]. Vriederich; 1978; watercolor; Smith, 1980: p. 68 [C]. [Woman and phallic objects]; Klinger, 1982c: plate VIII [C]. [Woman with phallus fondling and being fondled by woman]; Klinger, 1982c: plate XII [C]. [Woman with phallus in surreal setting]; Klinger, 1982c: plate XI [C]. [Women tribe and fantasy creatures]; Klinger, 1982c: plate XIV [C].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 7: pp. 744-745; Claudia Breitkopf-Weinmann, Egon Schiele — Horst Janssen: Selbstinszenie-rung, Eros und Tod (Oldenburg: Isensee, 2004), 179 p., ill.; Horst Janssen, Phyllis (Hamburg: Galerie Brockstedt, 1984); Dierk Lemcke (ed.), Horst Janssen: Eros, Tod und Maske 1949—1992: Holzschnitte, Monotypien, Radierungen, Lithographien, Zeichnungen (Hamburg: St. Gertrude, 1992); Vollmer VI 1962: p. 96.