Background
He was born in Alsfeld, in Hesse, Germany, and studied Sanskrit, art history, and comparative religions at University of Marburg in Marburg, Hesse.
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He also studied papermaking under artist Katharina Eitel in Marburg for two years, from 1991 to 1992.
Career
He is known for his large abstract paintings that employ oil in combination with gesso, egg, or wax and flour, on a monochrome background. In addition to New York, he has had solo exhibitions in Paris, Berlin, Brussels, London and Providence, Rhode Island, and, among other cities in France, Saint Etienne and Valenciennes. He has participated in group shows at Canada Gallery and the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York, London"s Lisson Gallery, and in Luxembourg, Paris, Rome, Miami, and Buenos Aires.
Janitz"s work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Die Welt, the New Yorker, the New York Observer, Artforum among other places.
He is represented by Team Gallery in the United States and Meyer Riegger gallery in Europe. He holds an Master of Arts in Sanskrit.
He lived and worked in France from 1994 to 2008, serving as a lecturer in Visual Arts at University of Paris VIII. In 2009, he taught at the Ecole Superieure Beaux Arts in Cherbourg, France. Having felt confined by the prevailing ideas about painting in the country, however, he moved to New York in 2009.
