Horst Janssen, Marikel, August 16, 1971, over an Egyptian mural from the grave of the Djeserkareseneb in Thebes, © Collection Gerhard Schack in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2007, © Photograph St. Gertrude.

From left, Horst Janssen, Don Juan seduces a Japanese woman, March 4, 1971, over Hokusai, Lead and colored pencil,
© Collection Gerhard Schack in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2007, © Photograph St. Gertrude; right,
Horst Janssen, 1 Konigunde, July 27, 1971, over Michelangelo, Adam und Eve, © Collection, Gerhard Schack in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2007, © Photograph St. Gertrude.

Hamburger Kunsthalle
Stiftung öffentlichen Rechts
Glockengießerwall
Hamburg
Janssen-Kabinett
Janssen, Leporello:
Don Juan’s Lovers
April 22-August 5, 2007

Drawing over existing images, reshaping models — be they reproductions, drawings or prints — was part of Horst Janssen's repertoire as in the 1970s. He spoke “of the pleasurable delight in destroying an existing harmony through frivolous spite”. In a playful dialogue with the model, a plane of resistance which for Janssen always represented a challenge, he achieved new harmonies and pictorial solutions in which the model was still recognzsable.

The exhibition includess more than 50 overpainted postcards from the 1970s. originally planned as a fold-out book or Leporello and to present Janssen's notion of Don Juan's Lovers.

Curator of the exhibition is Dr. Petra Roettig.

Left, Horst Jannsen, Lady Hamilton — the Younger, September 26, 1973, over Hans Holbein the Younger., Portrait design, Lead and colored pencil, © Collection Gerhard Schack in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2007, © Photograph St. Gertrude; Right, Horst Janssen, `ne Miss — also, 1971, over Albrecht Dürer, Wing of a Nebula Crow, Lead and colored pencil, © Collection Gerhard Schack in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2007, © Photograph St. Gertrude.