214 - Horst Janssen, “The Hare and the Hedgehog”, monogrammed drawing from 1973

Horst Janssen, “The Hare and the Hedgehog”, monogrammed drawing from 1973 Horst Janssen, 1929 Wandsbek - 1995 Hamburg, self-portrait as a hedgehog, inscribed ‘The Hare and the Hedgehog - Ex-libris Friederike Gutsche’ for the book ‘The Race between the Hare and the Hedgehog on the Buxtehude Heath’, pencil and coloured pencil, 34 x 27 cm, monogrammed, dated (19)73, framed under glass and with a passepartout About the artist: With his drawings, watercolours, gouaches, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs, Horst Janssen is regarded as one of the most outstanding and prolific draughtsmen and printmakers of the 20th century (“No one could draw like Janssen”, *Die Zeit*). The impact of Janssen’s work gained international recognition, particularly through his participation in the 34th Venice Biennale (1968) and Documenta 6 in Kassel (1977). In 1968, he was awarded the Venice Biennale Prize for Graphic Art; in 2000, the ‘Horst Janssen Museum’ in Oldenburg, dedicated to him and his work, was opened.