Imme Hoefer-Purkhold

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Imme Hoefer-Purkhold (born April 7, 1919 in Munich ; † January 5, 2008 in Oberammergau ) was a well-known contemporary sculptor and graphic artist in Bad Bayersoien .

Statue of St. Aloysius at the bridge in Obereichstätt in the Altmühltal

In 1936 she studied at the wood carving school in Bad Warmbrunn (Lower Silesia), which had existed since 1902, under Cirillo Dell'Antonio and from 1936 to 1947 with interruptions at the Academy for Fine Arts in Munich; she learned from Josef Henselmann and in 1955 from the Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzù . In 1938 she was a student at the Academy for Fine Arts in Königsberg . She lived and worked in Munich until around 1967 and has been based in Bad Bayersoien since then. She went on study trips to Portuguese West Africa, France, Italy, Poland, Sweden and Austria.

Her work includes works made of wood, stone, ceramics, bronze, stucco and sheet metal reaming. Her sculptures - often depicting religious motifs - can be found all over Bavaria, for example in Augsburg, Feldafing, Füssen, Großmehring (Nibelung monument on the Danube bridge), Hallstadt / Bamberg, Ingolstadt, Kelheim, Landshut, Lenggries, Munich (including in Laim and Pasing ), Murnau / Mühlhagen, Obereichstätt, Peißenberg, Rothenburg o. T., Starnberg, Traunreut, Treuchtlingen, Wasserburg and Weißenburg.

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SURNAME Hoefer-Purkhold, Imme
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 2008
Place of death Oberammergau , Germany