According to the proportions of the golden ratio, the painting Horizon is divided into two well-defined parts. The lower section displays a crowd of people, a montage juxtaposing individual characters of different age, gender and social class. Some figures have art historical reference: behind the main character, the German expressionist painter Otto Dix (Self-Portrait, 1931) appears, and the woman left of him evokes Duane Hanson’s Woman with a Purse from 1977. (Both can be found in the collection of the Ludwig Museum in Cologne.) The balding man on the right side is Vladimir Semyonov, former ambassador of the Soviet Union to West Germany. The artist mainly uses shades of brown and grey, to break their monotony only by the colour red, highly loaded with symbolic meanings. The use of colour helps homogenise the mass of people. The upper section of the painting is lighter above the horizon, darkening grey towards the top, its plain surface looming over the crowd in an extremely depressing way. The figures in grey hats are painted in the same tone, dispersed across the crowd. The protagonist, also wearing grey clothes and hat, is the artist himself. He is the only one in grey who looks us in the eye.