Ingeborg Hunzinger

Ingeborg Hunzinger (3 February 1915, in Berlin – 19 July 2009, in Berlin) was a German sculptor.

Ingeborg Hunzinger
Born	(1915-02-03)3 February 1915 Berlin, Germany
Died	19 July 2009(2009-07-19) (aged 94) Berlin, Germany
Nationality	German
Known for	Sculpture
Spouse(s)	Adolf Hunzinger (ending in divorce), Robert Riehl
Partner(s)	Helmut Ruhmer

Ingeborg Hunzinger (2008)

Tomb of the sculptor Ingeborg Hunzinger in the family grave Franck, Alter Friedhof Wannsee, Berlin

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. When the Nazis prevented her continued education in 1939, she emigrated to Italy. There, she met the German painter Helmut Ruhmer. In 1942 they returned to 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 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.[1]

Hunzinger was the grandmother of the writer Julia Franck.

Selected works

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  Die Erde (1974)
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  The Sphinx (1975)
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  Block of Women
  (erected 1995) — see: Rosenstrasse protest
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  Karl Liebknecht (1998)
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  Mathilde Jacob (1998)
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  Vater und Kind, 1958, Müggelpark
  Berlin-Friedrichshagen
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  Die Sinnende, 1980, Schlosspark Biesdorf
  Berlin-Marzahn
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  Tugenden und Laster des Sozialismus, 1966, Funkwerk
  Berlin-Köpenick
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  Tugenden und Laster des Sozialismus, 1966, Funkwerk
  Berlin-Köpenick
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  Tugenden und Laster des Sozialismus, 1966, Funkwerk
  Berlin-Köpenick
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  Sich Befreiender, 1991, Marzahner Promenade
  Berlin-Marzahn
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  Sich Aufrichtende, 1987, Marzahner Promenade
  Berlin-Marzahn
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  Die Geschlagene, 1985, Marzahner Promenade
  Berlin-Marzahn
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  Paar-Alter (Detail), 1987, Schragenfeldstraße
  Berlin-Marzahn
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  Der Jüngling, 1987, Schragenfeldstraße
  Berlin-Marzahn
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  Der Knabe, 1986, Gartencenter Fürstenwalder Allee
  Berlin-Rahnsdorf
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  Werden, 1987, Garten der Künstlerin
  Berlin-Rahnsdorf
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  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

• "Ingeborg Hunzinger gestorben", Junge Welt (20 July 2009) (in German)

1. "'Made to look silly and laughable'—the PDS in Germany reacts to the erection of a statue of Rosa Luxemburg" by Stefan Steinberg, World Socialist Web Site (27 January 1999)

External links

• Short biography and list & B/W photos of her works in Berlin (in German)
• "93-Jährige formt Denkmal für Rosa Luxemburg" ("93-year-old forms memorial for Rosa Luxemburg") by Kathrin Hedtke, Der Tagesspiegel (15 April 2008) (in German)