Sleeping cat. Horst Skorupa. 1970s/1980s. Horst Georg Skorupa1941 Breslau - 2004 Schaddel near Leipzig Clay, light-coloured body, partially set and incised in light-coloured, reddish and light-brown engobe. On the underside monogrammed H.S. in black fibre pencil. Engobe crazed in the area of the neck and the legs, with clod formation. Smaller burn marks on the cat's head. Larger missing part on the underside due to fire damage, as well as several fire cracks. Dimensions: L. 50 cm. Horst Georg Skorupa 1941 Breslau - 2004 Schaddel near 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.