Square vase with floral vase decor. Horst Skorupa. 1976. Horst Georg Skorupa1941 Wroclaw - 2004 Schaddel near Leipzig. Biscuit porcelain, painted in polychrome, matt colours, incised. The walls are decorated with the incised contour lines of white calla, snowdrops and snowdrops and the corresponding colours of the objects. Signed "Horst Skorupa" and dated on the underside. Cf: Arthur Sundau (ed.), Rainer Behrends (ed.): Keramik. Publikation für Töpfer, Sammler und Museen, Heft 28, Leipzig 1990, Nr. 20, 21, und 22 mit Abb. Studio marks on the underside. Measures: H. 39,5 cm. Horst Georg Skorupa 1941 Breslau - 2004 Schaddel near Leipzig German ceramist. 1961-63 Study of painting at the art college 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.