Marcus Jansen had just been honorably discharged from the United States Army, and was selling his artwork on the corner of Prince Street and Broadway in New York in 1999. Twenty years later, his work has been collected by celebrities and featured in galleries all over the world.
Jansen was born in New York, and grew up in Germany. During the summers, he would return to New York and stay with his godmother on the Upper West Side. Graffiti art was popular in the early 1980s, and greatly influenced the young artist.
