KA Janßen

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Kurt A. Janßen (* 1937 in Goch ) is a German artist.

Life

KA Janßen studied from 1955 to 1959 with a focus on free graphics and book design with Joseph Fassbender and Gerhard Kadow at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld (today's Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences ). Until 1970 he worked as a graphic artist in Leverkusen, Cologne and Krefeld, after which he worked as an art teacher in Duisburg and Krefeld. Study trips took him to Italy, France and Spain. He has been chairman of the Krefeld Artists' Association since 1981. In 1997 he received the " Ferdinand Langenberg Culture Prize" from the city of Goch.

He carried out numerous performances in which he combined text and images with “audible language, speech and symbolic movement”. His works can be found, for example, in the Goch Museum (silhouette cycle "Niederrheinischer Makabertanz") and in the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum , his artist book Wie eine Blume (1989) in the German National Library in Berlin and the Saxon State Library in Dresden.

At the end of the 1960s, KA Janßen discovered the cardboard cutting technique as a means of artistic expression. The works for the Mefazera cycle, delicate cardboard cuts made of black-dyed material, were created in 2002. He developed the installation “Shadow World ” ( When space opens ) for the exhibition Cross-Section in the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld.

KA Janßen works in “irregularly expanding cycles that run through his work like a network of paths to this day”; he alternates between different techniques and genres such as drawing, painting, cardboard cutting, photography, printing ( monotype ) and performance. His Interludium series, created in 2006, comprises 70 works on laid paper; they are watercolors with rhythmic and polyphonic structures.

Janssen is married and lives in Kempen .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1974: Kaiser Wilhelm Museum , Krefeld
  • 1975: Kultureel Centrum Thoogt, Utrecht (NL) (with Tomas Schmit)
  • 1976: Museum het Kruithuis / Moriaan, 's-Hertogenbosch (NL)
  • 1980: Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
  • 1985: Museum Dorenburg , Niederrheinisches Freilichtmuseum, Grefrath
  • 1989: Frankfurt Book Fair (Edition Grahn)
  • 1993: Art Gallery Luxemburg (L)
  • 1994: Galerie Christian Fochem, Krefeld
  • 1997: Museum Goch
  • 2007: Kramer Museum, Kempen

Group exhibitions (selection)

Exhibition catalogs and artist books

  • KA Janssen. Drawings . Gallery at the Schönwasserpark. Krefeld 1973
  • KA Janßen. Drawings, gouaches and reversible cuts . Niederrheinisches Freilichtmuseum, Grefrath, 1985
  • KA Janßen. Images of man . Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld 1980
  • KA Janßen: Like a flower. Paper cuts, silhouettes, reflections . With a text by Jürgen Reiter. Edition Grahn, Krefeld 1989
  • KA Janßen. Paper cuts . Texts: Jörg Becker, Rolf Leibenguth. Museum Goch 1995, ISBN 3-926245-26-3
  • KA Janßen. Leporello . Museum for Art and Cultural History Goch 1997, ISBN 3-926245-35-2
  • KA Janßen. Cardboard cuts . Krefeld 2002
  • Interlude. KA Janßen . Art Spectrum Krefeld 2007

Quote

“ KA Janssen is an imaginative experimenter in all drawing techniques, an experimenter also with graphic subjects. He makes use of all the charms of casualness, moves the sketchy into the center of the sheets and makes it the actual content of his pictures. His drawings often look like blurred architectural drawings. But the non-purposeful lettering, which is sometimes scattered across the page, shows that Janssen is not interested in what is shown. He has a thoroughly lyrical relationship to his subjects; he plays with them, implies them, wipes them out, stripping them of all usefulness through ironic formulation of words. "

- Gottfried Knapp

literature

  • Petra Diederichs: A man of sharp lines . In: Rheinische Post from February 8, 2007
  • Elisabeth Friese: "Salvator Mundi" - An installation by KA Janßen . In: ArtefACt. Art in the west . Aachen, April – June 2007 edition
  • Gottfried Knapp: All about freedom in Munich . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 22, 1974
  • Doris Morawietz: KA Janssen and Karl Heinz Heming. Themes with variations . In: ArtefACt. Art in the west . Aachen. November / December 2001
  • Reinhard Müller-Mehlis: Review of television oxen . In: Münchner Merkur from 18./19. May 1974
  • Michaela Plattenteich: A return at the age of 72. KA Janßen was represented in the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum as early as 1974 and 1980 . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of September 18, 2009
  • Thomas Janzen: Across from Samen Hofmann. 17 positions in Krefeld's contemporary art . In: cut across. Art from Krefeld today . Kunstmuseum Krefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-938966-17-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Leibenguth in: Interludium. KA Janßen . Art Spectrum Krefeld 2007
  2. ↑ Christian Krausch: Mefazera . In: KA Janßen. Cardboard cuts . Krefeld 2002
  3. ↑ Christian Krausch in: Overview of works 1973–2003
  4. ↑ All about Münchner Freiheit . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 22, 1974.
personal data
SURNAME Janßen, KA
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janßen, Kurt A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Goch