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Horst Janssen (1929 -95) Large Screenprint DaDa Surrealist Original Radierung on Wove, Ltd ed, 1966

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2 Aug 2023 · Art, Antiques, Jewellery & Collectables | Collective Auction | Closes for Entries 16/07/23

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By Horst Janssen a 1966 DaDa Surrealist composition
A Large Original Screenprint/Radierung on Wove paper, Ltd edition 79/100

 
Artist - Horst Janssen (German, b. 1929 to 1995)

Title - Unknown title, 1966 – Surrealist 

Medium - Original hand pulled Screen print/radierung in black- on woven paper

Signed - Signed, dated 1966

Edition - numbered 79/100 in pencil

Size - 81 x 58 cm (31 x 22 in)

Condition – In excellent stored Flat condition for age

provenance – East Bristol Auctions

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About the Art and the Artist

This Surrealist but darkly humorous and grotesque picture has a matt black body to the subjects. It shares a dadaist influence of the absurd but has the charming qualities of Horst Janner and his earlier seminal work.     
For Horst, this is a different and unusual composition in the DaDa influence.    

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 works were shown at the documenta VI in Kassel.

 

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