Franz Jantzen

Franz Jantzen (b. 1964) is a camera-based printmaker living and working in Washington, DC. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Folger Shakespeare Library and numerous other public and private collections in addition to the DC Art Bank.

Jantzen has long been interested in our relationship with the built environment. Since adding digital imaging to his vocabulary in 2004, he became increasingly interested in the detailed mapping and cataloguing of spaces with an eye for how we travel through them. He often weaves many hundreds of individual images into a single composition, making work that blurs distinctions between painting, drawing and photography.

In addition to his work as an artist, Jantzen is a commercial digital and photographic printmaker and Collections Manager for Graphic Arts in the Curator's Office at the Supreme Court of the United States. He is represented by Hemphill Artworks, and lives in Sixteenth Street Heights with his wife, Jean, and his daughter, Sicilia.