Horst Janssen

Ohne Titel
1969

Ballpen, felt-tip-pen, crayon and pencil on blank postcard

14.8 × 10.5 | 5 3/4 × 4 1/4 in

Marked “If no one is finer than someone who is smaller than all of the fines, then the smallest of the fines is the finest enemy” and also signed on the verso

The artist’s writing and the address by the artist’s hand to Johannes Gross, Cologne Rodenkirchen on the verso:

“28 10 69. 1445
– I poetized this for Gesche + duplicated it for you
Love Janssen”

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Provenance

The artist’s studio; Collection Johannes Gross, Cologne; Private Collection Berlin

Exhibitions

Galerie Ludorff, "Schöne Grüße – Künstlerpostkarten", Dusseldorf 2018

Literature

Galerie Ludorff, "Schöne Grüße. Künstlerpostkarten", Dusseldorf 2018, p. 48/49

About Horst Janssen

Janssen loved provocation, playing with words and ambiguities, which he often disguised in a humorous way. With a variety of very fine Pencil strokes he succeeds in creating a great variety of grey tones. That is why he gave himself the much-cited name “Million Stroke Artist” (“Millionenstrichler”).