Skeleton

Horst JanssenWW-1985-088150

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·68.2 × 89.7 cm (26 7/8 × 35 3/8 in.)

Catalogue

Year: 1985
Medium: 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
Dimensions: 68.2 × 89.7 cm (26 7/8 × 35 3/8 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Horst Janssen

Artist

Horst Janssen

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.

Hamburg, Germany

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