Horst Georg Skorupa

Vase with antique male heads. Horst Skorupa. 1978. Horst Georg Skorupa1941 Breslau - 2004 Schaddel bei Leipzig Ceramic, reddish brown body, partially glazed and partially painted with white engobe, contour lines in black fibre pencil. Cylindrical body with a slightly concave wall, the two sides painted with an antique male bust and a male portrait. The inner wall with colourless glaze. On the underside on a paper label typographically artist and place inscribed "Schaddelmühle" as well as dated. Dimensions: H. 33 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.