Hornburg was trained at the municipal trade school in Braunschweig with Johannes Leitzen and Hans Herse before she began studying in Magdeburg, which she completed in 1910 as a drawing teacher. She was then a scholarship holder of the Braunschweiger Kunstgewerbe-Verein. She attended a painting course given by Hans Baluschek at the Association of Berlin Female Artists.[1]

From 1912 to 1947 she worked as a painting and drawing teacher at the Braunschweig School of Crafts and Applied Arts, which later became the Academy of Fine Arts.

Hornburg painted mainly in watercolor. Her motifs came from the world of construction, industry and technology. Before the Second World War she documented cityscapes of Braunschweig and afterwards the ruined landscapes. During the Nazi era, she exhibited ten watercolors at the Braunschweig Art Exhibition in 1943.[1] Later she also devoted herself intensively to maritime motifs. But she also created linocuts or sculptures such as B. figures for playgrounds or the iron band sculpture at the main entrance of the new high school (1958). Numerous works can be found in the Municipal Museum in Braunschweig.

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