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Signed exhibition poster for Gallery 1 + 1 Gallery in Helsingborg (SE)

Colour offset print signed in the print 

Monogram with pencil

1977

Dimensions: 75 x 48 cm

Excellent condition

Horst Janssen - Porträt von Svanhall im Morgenmantel

SKU: 2022_HJ_PSM
250,00€Price
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  • Horst Janssen (14 November 1929 – 31 August 1995) was a German draftsman, printmaker, poster artist and illustrator. He had a prolific output of drawings, etchings, woodcuts, lithographs and wood engravings.

    Janssen was a student of Alfred Mahlau at the Landeskunstschule Hamburg. He first published in the newsweekly Die Zeit in 1947. In the early 1950s, he started working in lithography, on an initiative of Aschaffenburg paper manufacturer Guido Dessauer, using the technical facilities of a coloured paper factory. The first retrospective of Janssen's drawings and graphic works was shown in 1965, first in the kestnergesellschaft Hanover, then in other German cities and in Basel. In 1966, he was awarded Hamburg's Edwin Scharff Prize. International exhibitions followed. In 1968, he received the Grand Prize in graphic art at the Venice Biennale; in 1977, his