Ingeborg Hunzinger
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Ingeborg Hunzinger was a German sculptor
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Hunzinger was born Ingeborg Franck to a Jewish mother. In 1932 Ingeborg joined the Communist Party
. She began her studies in arts in 1935 and was master pupil of Ludwig Kasper
in 1938/39. In 1939 the Nazis
prevented her from studying further and she emigrated to Italy. There she met the German painter Helmut Ruhmer. In 1942 they had to return to Germany and had two children. However, because of Ingeborg's part-Jewish ancestry they were not allowed to marry.
Ruhmer was killed in the last of World War II
and Ingeborg married Adolf Hunzinger in the mid-fifties with whom she had her third child. After a divorce from Hunzinger she married the sculptor Robert Riehl in the mid-sixties.
Hunzinger resumed her arts studies in East Berlin in the early fifties; she was a master pupil of Fritz Cremer
and Gustav Seitz. She taught at the arts school in Berlin-Weißensee and worked from 1953 as free-lance artist. She joined later the Party of Democratic Socialism.
Hunzinger was the grandmother of the writer Julia Franck
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Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
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Hunzinger was born Ingeborg Franck to a Jewish mother. In 1932 Ingeborg joined the Communist Party
Communist Party of Germany
The Communist Party of Germany was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period until it was banned in 1956...
. She began her studies in arts in 1935 and was master pupil of Ludwig Kasper
Ludwig Kasper
- Biography :Born in Gurten, Austria, on May 2, 1893, Ludwig Kasper was the son of a farmer. He received artistic training as a sculptor in Hallstatt , then with Hermann Hahn in Munich, and, with the help of scholarships, in Greece and in Rome....
in 1938/39. In 1939 the Nazis
Nazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
prevented her from studying further and she emigrated to Italy. There she met the German painter Helmut Ruhmer. In 1942 they had to return to Germany and had two children. However, because of Ingeborg's part-Jewish ancestry they were not allowed to marry.
Ruhmer was killed in the last of World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
and Ingeborg married Adolf Hunzinger in the mid-fifties with whom she had her third child. After a divorce from Hunzinger she married the sculptor Robert Riehl in the mid-sixties.
Hunzinger resumed her arts studies in East Berlin in the early fifties; she was a master pupil of Fritz Cremer
Fritz Cremer
Fritz Cremer was a German sculptor of catholic extraction who turned to communism in the 1920s. Originally a stone-cutter, he studied at Berlin and got a government grant for the German academy in Rome, Villa Massimo, from 1937 to 1938...
and Gustav Seitz. She taught at the arts school in Berlin-Weißensee and worked from 1953 as free-lance artist. She joined later the Party of Democratic Socialism.
Hunzinger was the grandmother of the writer Julia Franck
Julia Franck
Julia Franck is a German writer.In 1978 Julia Franck and her family moved to West Berlin and later to Schleswig-Holstein. She studied German Literature and American Studies at the Free University of Berlin and spent some time in the United States, Mexico and Guatemala...
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Literature
- Christel Wollmann-Fiedler: Ingeborg Hunzinger. Die Bildhauerin. Wuppertal: HP Nacke Verlag, 2005. ISBN 3-9808059-6-4
External links
- Short biography and list & B/W photos of her works in Berlin
- "93-Jährige formt Denkmal für Rosa Luxemburg" ("93-year old forms memorial for Rosa LuxemburgRosa LuxemburgRosa Luxemburg was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and activist of Polish Jewish descent who became a naturalized German citizen...
") by Kathrin Hedtke, Der TagesspiegelDer TagesspiegelDer Tagesspiegel is a classical liberal German daily newspaper...
(15 April 2008)