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Ingeborg Hunzinger (3 February 1915, in

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– 19 July 2009, in Berlin) was a German

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

Life and career

Hunzinger was born Ingeborg Franck to a Jewish mother. In 1932 Ingeborg joined the

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. She was an apprentice stone mason in

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from 1936 until 1938. She was then pupil of

Ludwig Kasper Ludwig Kasper (2 May 1893 – 28 August 1945) was an Austrian sculptor. 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 (Tyrol), then with Herm ...

for the duration of 1938/39 When the

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prevented her continued education and teaching in 1939, she emigrated to Italy. There, she met the German painter Helmut Ruhmer. In 1942, they returned to the

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, Germany, and had two children. However, because of Ingeborg's part-Jewish ancestry, they were not allowed to marry within the country. Ruhmer was killed in the last year of

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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 art studies in East Berlin in the early fifties; she was a master pupil of

Fritz Cremer Fritz Cremer was a German sculptor. Cremer was considered a key figure in the DDR art and cultural politics. His most notable for being the creator of the "Revolt of the Prisoners" (Revolte der Gefangenen) memorial sculptor at the former concentra ...

and

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. She taught at the Academy of Art Berlin-Weißensee and worked from 1953 as a free-lance artist. She joined later the Party of Democratic Socialism. In 1995, Hunzinger created ''Block der Frauen'' (Block of Women) on the site of the Old Synagogue where the

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s took place. She created this to honour the courage of the women who fought to protect their families. Hunzinger was the grandmother of the writer

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Selected works

File:Die Erde Hunzinger Berlin2007.jpg, ''Die Erde'', 1974 File:Berlin Hunzinger.jpg, ''The Sphinx'', 1975 File:Rosenstrasse.jpg, ''Block der Frauen'', 1995 File:Karl Liebknecht ND1.JPG, ''

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'', 1998 File:Matthilde Jacob ND2.JPG, '' Mathilde Jacob'', 1998 Hunzinger_ Vater und Kind_1958.jpg, ''Vater und Kind'', 1958, Müggelpark
Berlin-Friedrichshagen Hunzinger_Die Sinnende_1980.jpg, ''Die Sinnende'', 1980, Schlosspark Biesdorf

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Hunzinger_Tugenden und Laster des Sozialismus_1966.jpg, ''Tugenden und Laster des Sozialismus'', 1966, Funkwerk
Berlin-Köpenick Hunzinger_Tugenden und Laster des Sozialismus_Detail.jpg, ''Tugenden und Laster des Sozialismus'', 1966, Funkwerk
Berlin-Köpenick Hunzinger_Tugenden und Laster des Sozialismus_Detail 02.jpg, ''Tugenden und Laster des Sozialismus'', 1966, Funkwerk
Berlin-Köpenick Hunzinger_Sich Befreiender_1991-1.jpg, ''Sich Befreiender'', 1991, Marzahner Promenade
Berlin-Marzahn Hunzinger_Sich Aufrichtende_1987.jpg, ''Sich Aufrichtende'', 1987, Marzahner Promenade
Berlin-Marzahn Hunzinger_Die Kauernde_1985.jpg, ''Die Geschlagene'', 1985, Marzahner Promenade
Berlin-Marzahn Hunzinger_Paar-Alter_1987.jpg, ''Paar-Alter'' (Detail), 1987, Schragenfeldstraße
Berlin-Marzahn Hunzinger_Der Jüngling_1987.jpg, ''Der Jüngling'', 1987, Schragenfeldstraße
Berlin-Marzahn Hunzinger_Der Knabe.jpg, '' Der Knabe'', 1986, Gartencenter Fürstenwalder Allee
Berlin-Rahnsdorf Hunzinger_Werden_1987.jpg, ''Werden'', 1987, Garten der Künstlerin
Berlin-Rahnsdorf Hunzinger_Mathilde Jacob_1998.jpg, ''Gedenken an Mathilde Jakob'', 1998, Franz-Mehring-Platz
Berlin-Friedrichshain

Literature

* Christel Wollmann-Fiedler: ''Ingeborg Hunzinger. Die Bildhauerin''. Wuppertal: HP Nacke Verlag, 2005. *

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: ''Einblicke – Künstlerische - Literarische - Politische.'' The sculptor Ingeborg Hunzinger. With letters from

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. Karin Kramer Verlag,

2012,

References

External links

"Ingeborg Hunzinger gestorben"
''Junge Welt'' (20 July 2009)

"93-Jährige formt Denkmal für Rosa Luxemburg"
[93-year-old forms memorial for

] by Kathrin Hedtke, ''Der Tagesspiegel'' (15 April 2008) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunzinger, Ingeborg 1915 births 2009 deaths Artists from Berlin Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Italy German women sculptors 20th-century German sculptors 20th-century German women artists