Ingeborg Hunzinger
Ingeborg Hunzinger ( born February 3, 1915 in Berlin, † July 19, 2009 ibid; born Franck ) was a German sculptor, the daughter of the chemist Hans Heinrich Franck, the granddaughter of the painter Philipp Franck and grandmother of the writer Julia Franck.
Life
Ingeborg Hunzinger was Jewish, as well as her mother. Hunzinger even joined in 1932 in the Communist Party a. Nevertheless, they started in 1935 to study at the College of Fine and Applied Art. 1938/1939 she was a master student of Ludwig Kasper. The Reich Chamber of Culture in 1939 forbade the study, and they emigrated to Italy, where they in Florence the German painter Helmut Ruhmer met who lived there as a fellow of the Villa Romana and later in Rome at the Villa Massimo. Hunzinger found refuge in Sicily, where it was followed Ruhmer soon. The end of 1942, she returned perforce back to Germany, where she spent the last years of the war in the Black Forest and gave birth to two children. Helmut Ruhmer, the father of her children, she could not marry because of the racial laws.
After Ruhmer had fallen in the last days of the war, she married mid 50s Adolf Hunzinger and gave birth to her third child. After divorcing Hunzinger she married in the 60s, the sculptor Robert Riehl.
In East Berlin, she again took up the study of art. From 1951 to 1953 Hunzinger master student of Fritz Cremer and Gustav Seitz. She has taught at the Art Academy in Berlin-Weissensee and worked since 1953 in Rahnsdorf as a freelance artist.
Sculpture The Earth ( Monbijoupark in Berlin)
Block of women
Ceramic Relief Karl Liebknecht ( and Mathilde Jacob) at the entrance of Franz -Mehring -Platz 1, Berlin
Despite their affiliation with the SED and later the Left Party, she refused to accept both the Patriotic Order of Merit Award and the National Prize of the GDR.