4143 - Norbert Hornig, "Sloth"

Norbert Hornig, "Sloth" a man lying in the grass, basking in the sun, with storm clouds gathering from the left across the spring-like landscape; presumably part of a series of 14 paintings on the seven deadly sins; an expressive style with socio-political undertones, oil on canvas mounted on a wooden panel, monogrammed ‘NH’ and dated (20)14 in the bottom right-hand corner, inscribed on the reverse in ballpoint pen: ‘Panel on the Seven Deadly Sins (2nd version) 14/14 Sloth (Acedia)”, 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 General Artists’ Encyclopaedia Online counts him amongst the most impressive painters of figurative expressionism in Leipzig.