Wall plate with blackbird and peony decoration. Horst Skorupa and Dirk Fischer. 1987. Horst Georg Skorupa1941 Breslau - 2004 Schaddel near Leipzig Dirk Fischer 1959 Leipzig Faience, light-coloured body, white glazed and painted in polychrome inglaze colours. Round form with a slightly ascending flag. The mirror with a peony in a vase and a blackbird, the rim of the plate decorated with diagonally striped ribbon ornament. Monogrammed "HS" and "DF" as well as dated in the image below. Verso two clay eyelets for hanging. Cf. in similar design: Arthur Sundau (ed.), Rainer Behrends (ed.): Keramik. Publikation für Töpfer, Sammler und Museen, Heft 28, Leipzig 1990, Nr. 76, mit Abb. Shards partially exposed (from the manufacturing process). Dimensions: D. 52 cm. Horst Georg Skorupa 1941 Breslau - 2004 Schaddel bei Leipzig German ceramist. 1961-63 Study of painting at the art academy in Berlin-Weißensee. From 1973 member of the VBK. 1974 co-founder of the artists' college "Schaddelmühle", until 1978 chairman of the college. 1975 Participation in the 1st International Artists' Symposium of the GDR. 1976 Prize in the exhibition "Young Artists of the GDR". 1981/82 Working stay in the studio of the State Porcelain Manufactory Meissen. From 1991 runs a joint studio with Martin Gruner in Schaddel. 1992 End of his work due to health problems. Some of Skorupa's works are in the Museum of Applied Art in Gera.