Norbert Kox
Norbert Kox was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin
in 1945, on the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. At seventeen he joined the army, where in his spare time
he taught himself not only to paint, but to drink. After his stint in the
service, he continued to drink heavily while working on custom cars and
motorcycles for a living. He became a notorious member of the "Outlaws"
biker gang, but "hit bottom" by his thirtieth birthday after a
drug overdose. He swore off alcohol, gave away most of his possessions,
and joined a conservative Pentecostal Christian group. As he studied the
Scriptures, his perceptions of Christianity changed dramatically. Kox could
no longer belong to any organized religious group; he now understood them
to be the deception of evil forces. He saw pagan religious practice at the
heart of this false representation of Christianity. For the next ten years
he meditated, painted, and lived by himself in the woods near Suring, Wisconsin.
Here he built a personal chapel and a "Gospel Road" with scripture-based
messages leading through the forest. In 1985, he returned to Green Bay,
studying religion and art at a branch of the University of Wisconsin, after
which he took up painting full-time as his way of life.
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Death, Where is thy Sting:
Yesu Christ, the Fountain of Life
Collection of Robert A. Roth
Yesu, the Glorious Christ in the Pit of Hell
(He Has Tasted Death That We Might Have Life)
Collection of Robert A. Roth
Yesu, the Glorious Christ...(detail)
Collection of Robert A. Roth
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