Ingeborg Hunzinger
{{Short description|German sculptor}}
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| birth_name = Ingeborg Franck
| birth_date = {{birth date|1915|2|3|df=y}}
| birth_place = Berlin, Germany
| death_date = {{death date and age|2009|7|19|1915|2|3|df=y}}
| death_place = Berlin, Germany
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| field = Sculpture
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| spouse = Adolf Hunzinger (1949–? (div); Robert Riehl (1960s–1976, his death)
| partner = Helmut Ruhmer (1939–1945)
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Ingeborg Hunzinger (3 February 1915, in Berlin – 19 July 2009, in Berlin) was a German sculptor.
Life and career
Hunzinger was born Ingeborg Franck to a Jewish mother. In 1932 Ingeborg joined the Communist Party. She was an apprentice stone mason in Würzburg from 1936 until 1938. She was then pupil of Ludwig Kasper for the duration of 1938/39.{{cite news |author= |date=20 July 2009 |title=Bildhauerin Ingeborg Hunzinger gestorben |language=de |work=Die Zeit |url=https://www.zeit.de/online/2009/30/hunzinger-bildhauerin-tod}} When the Nazis 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 Black Forest, 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 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 art studies in East Berlin in the early fifties; she was a master pupil of Fritz Cremer 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.{{Cite web |last=Steinberg |first=Stefan |date=27 January 1999 |title='Made to look silly and laughable'--the PDS in Germany reacts to the erection of a statue of Rosa Luxemburg |url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1999/01/rosa-j27.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925164922/https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1999/01/rosa-j27.html |archive-date=25 September 2021 |access-date= |website=World Socialist Web Site |language=en}}
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.{{cite web|title=Block of Women|url=https://www.visitberlin.de/en/block-women|website=Visit Berlin|publisher=Berlin Tourismus & Kongress GmbH|accessdate=20 October 2020}}
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|Karl Liebknecht, 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
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
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. {{ISBN|3-9808059-6-4}}
- Rengha Rodewill: Einblicke – Künstlerische - Literarische - Politische. The sculptor Ingeborg Hunzinger. With letters from Rosa Luxemburg. Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 2012, {{ISBN|3-87956-368-3}}
References
External links
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- [http://www.jungewelt.de/2009/07-20/056.php "Ingeborg Hunzinger gestorben"], Junge Welt (20 July 2009) {{in lang|de}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080914184659/http://www.bildhauerei-in-berlin.de/_html/_katalog/kuenstler-1254.html Short biography and list & B/W photos of her works in Berlin] {{in lang|de}}
- [http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/Stadtleben-Rosa-Luxemburg;art125,2513400?_FRAME=33&_FORMAT=PRINT "93-Jährige formt Denkmal für Rosa Luxemburg"] [93-year-old forms memorial for Rosa Luxemburg] by Kathrin Hedtke, Der Tagesspiegel (15 April 2008) {{in lang|de}}
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Category:Sculptors from Berlin
Category:Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Italy