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4142 - Norbert Hornig, “Gluttony”

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€180

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Estimation

€180 - 270

Sale fees

32.13%

Norbert Hornig, “Gluttony” Depiction of a man eating; in the foreground, various dishes, some of which gaze at the viewer with a shocked expression; presumably part of a series of 14 paintings on the seven deadly sins (each deadly sin depicted twice), expressive painting style with socio-political undertones, oil on canvas on wooden panel, monogrammed ‘NH’ and dated (20)14 in the top left-hand corner, labelled ‘7 Deadly Sins Panel: Gluttony’ (Gluttony) 2014, 100 x 80 cm, Reg. 8/14, signed top left NH 14”, unframed, inner dimensions 100.5 x 80.5 cm. Artist information: Saxon painter, caricaturist and graphic artist (1935 in Langenbielau, Silesia - 2024 in Bad Düben), a pupil of Gerhard Kurt Müller and Heinz Wagner, professor at the University of Industrial Design in Halle/Saale, recipient of the GDR Art Prize in 1977 and the Gellert Prize for Fine Art in Leipzig in 2005, his artistic style was strongly influenced by the Brücke artists such as Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff; the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online ranks him amongst the most impressive painters of figurative expressionism in Leipzig.

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Auction details

Auction 124, Day 3
Saturday, November 21
10:00 AM
Hammerstraße 30
08523 Plauen, Germany

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