Watercolour and pen and ink drawing over Asian print, 28 x 30,5 cm, dat. 23.1.78, min. dam., unframed. - Literature: The artwork is published with ill. in: H. J.: Vriederich. Briefe an Viola, 1986, p. 95. - Provenance: Collection Viola Rackow. - One of the most important modern German draughtsmen and graphic artists. J. studied at the Hamburg Landeskunstschule in A. Mahlau's classes of liberal and applied arts. He merged the traditions of the Old Masters and the achievements of modernism to create his own pictorial language. M.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Oldenburg a. others. Lit.: Der Neue Rump, Blessin: H. J. Leben und Werk a. others.Provenance: Collection Viola Rackow.