5 offset prints. Each with pencil monogram. [19]66 - [19]68.

Max. 62 x 43 cm.

"James Joyce", sheet: 52.5 x 38.5 cm, [19]66, creased | "Gottfried Benn", sheet: 61.3 x 43 cm, [19]68, lower margin with tear | "Franz Kafka", sheet: 57.5 x 40.5 cm, [19]67 | "Heinrich Mann", sheet: 61 x 43 cm, [19]67, small stain lower left and "Honoré de Balzac", sheet: 55 x 43 cm, [19]67; from the series "Dichterköpfe" for the bookstore Hermann Laatzen in Hamburg.

German draftsman, graphic artist, illustrator and photographer; counts among the most outstanding German artists of the 20th century, in 2000, the "Horst Janssen Museum" dedicated to him was opened in Oldenburg. "I am after the fleeting appearances of this world in their changing disguises, so that at my funeral I could say: 'I saw it!' And if I scream until then and in between, then: leave me alone!" (Quote: HJ, 1980. www.kunstdirekt.net).