Old Shoe
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HORST JANSSEN
German, 1929 – 1995
Langenhorn Freundschaft II (Old Shoe), 1982
Etching
© Horst Janssen estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
Gift of Frederick and Lucy S. Herman, Maria Herman Lania Print Collection
1984.036
Horst Janssen was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1929. He attended that city’s Fine Arts College, and published his first work in 1947, two years after the end of World War II. Janssen is best known as a lithographer and printmaker noted for his line work. That skill is evident in this etching of an “Old Shoe” where the intricate web of fine etched lines conveys the form and life of this well-worn shoe. The inscription—Langenhorn Freundschaft—is intriguing. Langenhorn is part of Hamburg, and Freunschaft translates as friendship. The “II” might be a reminder there are two shoes here; the second one is more visible in another version of the subject.
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