Horst Janssen - Legacy

Legacy

During Janssen's lifetime, his work was shown internationally, for example, in Basel (1966), London (1970), Zürich, Oslo, Göteborg (all in 1971), New York (1974), Turin (1975), Cambridge, Barcelona, Lugano (all 1976), Chicago (1980), travelling exhibition in Japan (1982), travelling exhibition in the U.S. (1983–1985) and Nowosibirsk (1985). More recently, his work has been shown at major museums, such as the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam (2008). An exhibition at the Leopold Museum in Vienna in 2004, "Egon Schiele / Horst Janssen", explored his work in relation to the art of Egon Schiele.

In 2000, the Horst Janssen Museum, an art museum, was opened in Oldenburg. Special exhibitions there have explored his work in relation to other artists, such as Goya. He is represented in the Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Collection of contemporary art of the Federal Republic of Germany) in Bonn.

A biography, Horst Janssen - Eine Biographie (1984), was written by Stefan Blessin, who in 1992, added Horst Janssen - Aus dem Dunkel ins Licht ("Horst Janssen - From Darkness into Light"). In 2001, Janssen's friend Joachim Fest published Horst Janssen. Selbstbildnis von fremder Hand ("Horst Janssen. Self-Portrait in a Foreign Hand") and in 2006, Die schreckliche Lust des Auges. Erinnerungen an Horst Janssen ("The Horrible Pleasure of the Eye. Memories of Horst Janssen"). Janssen's own memoirs were published in 2006 by Gesche Tietjens, titled Summa summarum: Ein Lebenslesebuch ("Summary of Summaries, a Book of Life Reader").