Defiiciency Diseases: Diseases caused by a lack of substances, painting by Austrian artist Werner Horvath.

Diseases by a lack of

Werner Horvath: "Deficiency Diseases". Oil and acrylic on canvas,140 x 100 cm, 2013/14.

Exhibited in Kunsthaus Graz, Sept. 22nd, 2018 - Jan. 27th, 2019 and published in the Supplement of the Catalogue "Congo Stars", edited by Barbara Steiner and Günther Holler-Schuster, ISBN 978-3-903179-10-3, 2018.

Details see below:

Scurvy (lack of vitamin C) - Anemia (lack of iron)

Pellagra (lack of vitamin B3) - To die of thirst (lack of water)

Night Blindness (lack ov vitamin A) - Kwashiorkor (lack of albumins)