Füsli after Himself
Catalogue
- Year
- 1976
- Dimensions
- Plate: 8 7/8 x 6 1/2" (22.6 x 16.5 cm) Sheet ( irreg.): 16 11/16 x 12 7/16" (42.4 x 31.6 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Horst Janssen
Artist
Printmaking
Horst Janssen was a German printmaker and draughtsman whose obsessively detailed pen and ink works mapped the interior life of the postwar psyche through distorted self-portraiture and narrative sequences. Working across etching, lithography, and drawing from the 1950s onward, he developed a visual language of psychological intensity that rejected both abstraction and socialist realism. His prints and drawings, characterized by intricate hatching, fragmentary bodies, and hallucinatory spaces, established him as a central figure in Northern European printmaking of the postwar period.
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Skeleton
1985 · Graphite and black and colored Conté crayons, with touches of colored wax crayons, smudging, and erasing, on pieced salmon laid paper, prepared with a white ground
Therapeutic Mask, from Paranoia Series
1982 · Pastel and graphite on cream wove paper (pieced at bottom)
Self-Portrait
1976 · Etching on tan wove paper
Self-Portrait
1976 · Etching and drypoint on greenish-gray laid paper
Routine Landschaft vor Holm
1975 · Aquatint with etching and drypoint in black on white wove paper
Plate 3, from Totentanz
1974 · Etching, aquatint and plate tone on blue Japanese paper
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- Horst Janssen
- Year
- 1976
- Dimensions
- Plate: 8 7/8 x 6 1/2" (22.6 x 16.5 cm) Sheet ( irreg.): 16 11/16 x 12 7/16" (42.4 x 31.6 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1976-M059727
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- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
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