Horst Georg Skorupa

Cylinder vase / Vase with column decor / Cylinder vase with flowers. Horst Skorupa. 1976. Horst Georg Skorupa1941 Breslau - 2004 Schaddel bei Leipzig Biscuit porcelain and porcelain, partially glazed and partially painted in polychrome onglaze colours. One cylindrical vase half coloured in two shades of blue and with applied ornamental frieze on the upper rim, the other cylindrical vase with surrounding painted and stylized flower decoration. One vase over oval cross-section, the sides with partly plastic column decor and a male bust in half relief. The oval vase signed "Horst Skorupa" and dated on the underside, the cylinder vases unsigned. Isolated small fire cracks in the plastic decoration of the oval vase, as well as on the stand of the blue vase. Cylinder vase with flower decor with small chip on the upper rim. Dimensions: h. 25,5 cm / h. 26 cm / h. 24,5 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.