| 1929 | Born in Wandsbek near Hamburg. |
| 1946-1951 | studies with Alfred Mahlau in the class for free and applied graphics at the Landes-Kunstschule Hamburg, today's HFBK. |
| 1947 | first autodidactic expressionist attempts in the technique of woodcutting |
| 1951 | scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation |
| 1952 | Lichtwark scholarship holder; he leaves the Landes-Kunstschule involuntarily |
| 1952-1960 | Commissioned work (including oil paintings) for the colored paper manufacturer Guido Dessauer in Aschaffenburg. First occupation with lithography. |
| 1957 | first "Flur" exhibition with large-format color woodcuts |
| from 1957 | intensive occupation with the etching technique, guided by Paul Wunderlich |
| 1964 | art award of the city of Darmstadt |
| 1965-67 | first exhibition at the Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover (the exhibition travels from January 1966 to January 1967 to Hamburg, Darmstadt, Stuttgart, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Lübeck, Basel and Munich); awarded the Edwin-Scharff Prize of the City of Hamburg to Janssen and Paul Wunderlich |
| 1968 | Participates in the 34th Venice Biennale, Janssen receives the 1st prize for international graphic art there |
| 1969-1972 | Travels to Scandinavia and Ticino, landscape becomes a new artistic motif for Janssen |
| 1975 | Schiller Prize of the city of Mannheim |
| 1978 | Poster exhibition at the Oldenburg City Museum; Biermann-Ratjen Medal of the City of Hamburg |
| 1980 | Exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, USA |
| 1983-1985 | Touring exhibition in the USA |
| 1990 | Janssen is awarded the Oldenburg Prize of the Oldenburgische Landschaft (Oldenburg landscape) |
| 1991 | Exhibition of the "Bobethanien" landscapes in the Albertinum in Dresden; touring exhibition in Japan and Norway; honorary citizenship of the city of Oldenburg |
| 1995 | died in Hamburg |
ARTISTS
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Art after 1945
Horst Janssen
Available works
In the works of the portfolio "Hanno's Death" Janssen plays on 23 self-portraits on the occasion of the typhoid chapter from Thomas Mann's "Buddenbrooks" the disintegration as a result of the disease. In the 1970s and 1980s, a magnificent series of color etchings, some of them in large format, was created, printed by Hartmut Frielinghaus with the greatest sensitivity and mastery of craftsmanship.
Achim Bolt, 1958
Cat, 1961
Invitation Villa Stuck, 1966
Laatzer Bilderbogen episode 2 sheet 1a, 1967
Lamme Toy, 1986
New Year Card Pope John Paul, 1992
Physiognomic studies, 1967
Poster Ketterer, 1966/67
Promenade, 1957
Schaffe - Schaffe Häuslebaue, 1966
Svanshall, 1976
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