4122 - Horst Skorupa, Cottage Garden

Horst Skorupa, Cottage Garden a view of various shrubs and plants in a garden; the composition features a table with cacti; a vivid, expressive work; oil on cardboard; monogrammed ‘HS’ in the bottom left-hand corner and dated 22 September 1987; reverse side covered, good condition, in a very opulent frame, inner dimensions 60.5 x 90 cm. Artist information: born Horst Georg Skorupa, German ceramicist, object and collage artist, painter and graphic artist (1941 Breslau [Wrocław] - 2004 Schaddel), 1961-63: studied at the Berlin-Weißensee Academy of Art under Fritz Dähn and Herbert Behrens-Hangeler; 1963: dropped out of his studies and worked until 1965 as an unskilled labourer in coal mining at the Leunawerk, 1966-68: Studied museology in Leipzig; 1968-70: Assistant at the Bad Frankenhausen Regional Museum and the Neubrandenburg Regional Museum; 1970-73: Staff member at the Gerhart Hauptmann Theatre in Görlitz; In 1972, he acquired a mill in Großbothen/Schaddel; from 1973, he worked as a freelance ceramist in Schaddel near Grimma, where, in 1974, he founded the ceramic collective ‘Kollegium Bildender Künstler Schaddelmühle’ with Sigrid Huß, Regina Junge and Astrid Dannegger; worked intermittently at the Lichte-Wallendorf porcelain works; 1981-82: artistic collaborator at the studio of the State Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen; 1973-90: Member of the Association of Visual Artists (VBK) of the GDR; contributed to various exhibitions, including the GDR Art Exhibition in Dresden in 1977-78 and 1987-88, In 1991, he collaborated with the ceramicist Martin Gruner; in 1992, he ceased his artistic work due to ill health. Source: AKL, Eisold “Artists in the GDR” and the internet.