HORST JANSSEN’S WORKS EXHIBIT OPENS IN YEREVAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
20.03.2009 19:25 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Germany Days in Armenia were inaugurated today by
Horst Janssen’s Works Exhibition in Armenian National Picture Gallery .

More than 160 works of German printmaker were displayed.

The exhibition will also be held in Gyumri, Martuni and Kapan, German
Embassy in Armenia told PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

Germany Days in Armenia, initiated by German Embassy in Armenia
and RA Ministry of Culture, will include exhibitions, readings and
scientific conference.

On Mar. 21 Armenian National Picture Gallery will host a lecture
entitled "Horst Janssen and his heritage".

Horst Janssen was a German printmaker born on Nov. 14, 1929 in Hamburg.

In 1946 at the age of sixteen, Janssen enrolled at the
Landeskunstschule (Regional Art School) in Hamburg. Later, he worked
on a series of large-scale color woodcuts that were displayed in his
apartment in 1957. Janssen gained recognition and the same year had
an exhibition in Hanover in the Hans Brockstedt Gallery. He won first
prize for graphic art at the Venice Biennale in 1968.

Horst Janssen died on Aug. 31, 1995 and was buried in the Gertruden
Cemetery in Oldenburg.