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Ingeborg Hunzinger (3 February 1915, in
Berlin Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European U ...
– 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 ...
.


Life and career

Hunzinger was born Ingeborg Franck to a Jewish mother. In 1932 Ingeborg joined the
Communist Party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of '' The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ...
. She was an apprentice stone mason in
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from 1936 until 1938. She was then pupil of Ludwig Kasper for the duration of 1938/39 When the
Nazis Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hit ...
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 Gustav Seitz. 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 Rosenstrasse protests 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 Julia Franck.


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 Mathilde Jacob (8 March 1873 – 14 April 1943) was a German typist and translator who during the First World War became politically involved, working with the anti-war Spartacus League and as a founder member of the German Communist Party. She ...
'', 1998 Hunzinger_ Vater und Kind_1958.jpg, ''Vater und Kind'', 1958, Müggelpark
Berlin-Friedrichshagen Friedrichshagen () is a German locality (''Ortsteil'') within the Berlin borough (''Bezirk'') of Treptow-Köpenick. Until 2001 it was part of the former borough of Köpenick. History The colony of ''Friedrichsgnade'' was founded on May 29, 1753 ...
Hunzinger_Die Sinnende_1980.jpg, ''Die Sinnende'', 1980, Schlosspark Biesdorf
Berlin-Marzahn 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 Rahnsdorf () is a locality (''Ortsteil'') of Berlin, Germany, located in the southeast of the Berlin borough (''Bezirk'') of Treptow-Köpenick. Until 2001 it was part of the former borough of Köpenick. History Rahnsdorf was first mentioned in 1 ...
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 Friedrichshain () is a quarter (''Ortsteil'') of the borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany. From its creation in 1920 until 2001, it was a freestanding city borough. Formerly part of East Berlin, it is adjacent to Mitte, Prenzl ...


Literature

* Christel Wollmann-Fiedler: ''Ingeborg Hunzinger. Die Bildhauerin''. Wuppertal: HP Nacke Verlag, 2005. * Rengha Rodewill: ''Einblicke – Künstlerische - Literarische - Politische.'' The sculptor Ingeborg Hunzinger. With letters from
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. Karin Kramer Verlag,
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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
Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg (; ; pl, Róża Luksemburg or ; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialism, revolutionary socialist, Marxism, Marxist philosopher and anti-war movement, anti-war activist. Succ ...
] 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