Horst Janssen was a prominent German lithographer, printmaker, and illustrator. Characterized by his inventive line work and delicate imagery, his early drawings consisted of portraits of famous figures such as Edgar Allan Poe, drawn in webby-ink lines similar to the technique used by contemporary illustrator Ralph Idris Steadman. Born on November 14, 1929 in Hamburg, Germany, he studied at the city’s School of Fine Arts and first published his work in the weekly publication Die Zeit in 1947. The first retrospective of Janssen's drawings and graphic works was shown in 1965 in the Hanover gallery Kestnergesellschaft, and in 1966, he was awarded Hamburg's Edwin Scharff Prize. Numerous international exhibitions followed, yet his rising professional...