Ingeborg Hunzinger

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Ingeborg Hunzinger (2008)

Ingeborg Hunzinger (born February 3, 1915 in Berlin ; † July 19, 2009 there ; née Franck ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Ingeborg Hunzinger was the daughter of the chemist Hans Heinrich Franck , the granddaughter of the painter Philipp Franck and the grandmother of the writer Julia Franck . Her mother was Jewish , which is why she was considered a first-degree mixed breed under the National Socialist race laws . She joined the Communist Party (KPD) in 1932 . In 1935 she began studying at the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg , which later became Berlin University of the Arts . In 1938/1939 she was a master student of Ludwig Kasper . The Reich Chamber of Culture forbade her to continue her studies in 1939; she then emigrated to Italy . Here she met the German painter Helmut Ruhmer in Florence , who lived there on a scholarship from the Villa Romana and later in Rome at the Villa Massimo . Hunzinger found refuge in Sicily in the family of a local painter, where Ruhmer soon followed. At the end of 1942 she returned to Germany with him, where they spent the last years of the war in the Black Forest and they had two children. She was not allowed to marry Helmut Ruhmer, the father of her children, because she was “half-Jewish”.

After Ruhmer fell on the Eastern Front in the last days of the war, Ingeborg stayed in the Black Forest for a while and earned her living with pottery . She became politically active again and founded a branch of the KPD here together with other people. During her work, she got to know and love the communist and Spain fighter Adolf Hunzinger. The small family moved to East Berlin towards the end of 1949 , where they married and another child was born to them the following year. Intellectual differences of opinion led to growing problems, and so Ingeborg and Adolf Hunzinger divorced. In Berlin she resumed her art studies, this time at the art college in Berlin-Weißensee . From 1951 to 1953, Hunzinger was a master student of Fritz Cremer and Gustav Seitz . After graduating, she got a teaching position at this university. But in the same year she opened her own studio in Berlin-Rahnsdorf and from then on worked as a freelance artist. It was during this time that the sculptor Robert Riehl entered their lives, and they married in the 1960s.

Ingeborg Hunzinger in the studio of her house, Berlin-Rahnsdorf

Art for everyone became important to her, she looked for and made contact with many working people and found her motives. The award of numerous government contracts ensured her a good livelihood, but she was nevertheless able to incorporate many of her own considerations into the motifs and execution. Hunzinger's rather strong naked female figures, mostly carved out of stone, became a special feature. Her experiences from the time of National Socialism also flowed into many works .

Open summer studio of the artist, Berlin-Rahnsdorf

Despite her membership in the SED , she refused to accept both the Patriotic Order of Merit and the GDR National Prize . In a later interview for a Viennese newspaper she justified this attitude afterwards - she considered the “ideological monkey theater in the field of culture and tutelage” to be unworthy. After German reunification , she was a member of the Die Linke party until her death .

Grave in the Franck family grave , Wannsee old cemetery, Berlin

Works (selection)

  • 1958: Father and child , Müggelpark, Berlin-Friedrichshagen , Josef-Nawrocki Straße
  • 1959: Mother with children , sandstone , in the Auerdreieck, Berlin-Friedrichshain
  • 1959: amateur play , bronze relief, Bernau forest settlement
  • 1955–1965: Sculptural works for the Leunawerke
  • 1964: Artistic Dance , Leipzig, Bayrischer Platz
  • 1966: virtues and vices of socialism , terracotta - relief in the Funkwerk Köpenick , Berlin-Koepenick, Wendenschloßstraße 142
  • 1970: Stürzende , sandstone; for the victims of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp death march in April 1945 in Parchim in a park between the Goethe school and the hospital
  • 1974: Die Erde , Monbijoupark , Berlin-Mitte and in the Baltic resort of Wustrow , Strandstrasse
  • 1979: women , sandstone; (Total height with base 1.90 m), Berlin-Marzahn , Südspitze district, Märkische Allee 68
  • 1979: Mother and child , sandstone, Parchim City Museum (original location: Mönchhof Parchim)
  • 1980: Die Sinnende , Alt-Biesdorf Palace Park , Berlin-Biesdorf
  • 1982: Jugend or Der Jüngling , sandstone, total height of the figure plus base 3.50 m, Berlin-Marzahn, Quarter Recreation Park, Schragenfeldstrasse
    Together with Der Jüngling , the theme of age was designed here in the Bäckerpfuhl green area.
  • 1985: Die Geschlage , Berlin-Marzahn , Marzahner Promenade
  • 1985: Straighteners , Berlin-Marzahn, Marzahner Promenade
  • 1985: Elderly couple , sandstone, total height with base 2.50 m, Berlin-Marzahn, Quarter Recreation Park,
  • 1987: The rising one , in front of the Köpenick town hall , Berlin-Köpenick
    In 2015 the district office had the sculpture cleaned and then originally wanted to put it back up in a less frequented place, the Bellevuepark . But in August it was decided to move them back to their old location, the     Luisenhain . After another damage - an arm was broken off - the district office of Treptow-Köpenick dismantled the plastic on June 11, 2020 and had it stored in a depot of the Green Department.
  • 1988–1995: Couple , installed in 2003, Berlin-Marzahn, Gardens of the World .
    The sandstone group (a man sitting on the ground, from whose embrace the woman breaks away and walks away) was a gift from the artist to the district.
  • 1991: The Sphinx , at Mother Fourage , Berlin-Wannsee , Chausseestrasse 15a
  • 1991: Self-Liberating , Berlin-Marzahn, Marzahner Promenade
    The three figures, the beaten , the straightening and the liberating , together form the memorial for communists and anti-fascist resistance fighters , which should be perceived via a staircase.
  • 1993: Couple embraced , in the courtyard of the Köpenick Blood Week Memorial June 1933, Berlin-Köpenick, Puchanstrasse 12
  • 1995: Women's Block , Rosenstrasse in Berlin-Mitte ; in memory of the Rosenstrasse protest
  • 1996: Ceramic reliefs in honor of Karl Liebknecht and Mathilde Jacob at the entrance of the Neues Deutschland publishing house , Berlin
  • 1996: Elderly couple , in the Park Püttbergeweg, Berlin-Rahnsdorf
  • 1997: Pegasus , behind the beach hall Ahrenshoop
  • 1998: The Sicilian Dream , in the Hotel Alexander Plaza , Berlin-Mitte
  • 1998: The sound , in the Gendarmenmarkt theater, Berlin-Mitte
  • 1999: The evil cloud , behind the village church, Berlin-Rahnsdorf, Dorfstrasse

Works (photos)

  • Father and child , 1958, Müggelpark
    Berlin-Friedrichshagen

  • Mother with children , 1959, Auerpark
    Berlin-Friedrichshain

  • Virtues and vices of socialism , 1966, Funkwerk
    Berlin-Köpenick

  • Die Erde , 1974,
    (Monbijoupark in Berlin)

  • Die Sinnende , 1980, Schlosspark Biesdorf
    Berlin-Marzahn

  • Die Geslage , 1985, Marzahner Promenade
    Berlin-Marzahn

  • Straightening up , 1985, Marzahner Promenade
    Berlin-Marzahn

  • Der Knabe , 1986, Garden Center
    Fürstenwalder Allee
    Berlin-Rahnsdorf

  • Couple age (detail), 1987, Schragenfeldstrasse
    Berlin-Marzahn

  • The young man , 1987, Schragenfeldstrasse
    Berlin-Marzahn

  • Werden , 1987, garden of the artist
    Berlin-Rahnsdorf

  • Die-sich-Uebende , 1987, Luisenhain
    Berlin-Köpenick

  • Liberator , 1991, Marzahner Promenade
    Berlin-Marzahn

  • The entwined couple , 1993, Puchanstrasse 12
    Berlin-Köpenick

  • Women's Block , 1995

  • Women's Block , 1995, partial view

  • Elderly couple , 1996,
    Berlin-Rahnsdorf

  • In memory of Mathilde Jacob , 1998, Franz-Mehring-Platz
    Berlin-Friedrichshain

  • Mourning woman , on the grave of Herbert Sandberg

Exhibitions (selection)

The exhibition Ingeborg Hunzinger took place from February 3 to 28, 2015 in Berlin-Adlershof , Dörpfeldstraße Galerie Alte Schule . Works from 50 years .

Honor

On July 19, 2015, on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of her death, a section of the road to Fichtenau in Berlin-Rahnsdorf was renamed Ingeborg-Hunzinger-Strasse.

literature

  • Rengha Rodewill : Insights - Artistic - Literary - Political . The sculptor Ingeborg Hunzinger. With letters from Rosa Luxemburg . Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-87956-368-5 .
  • Christel Wollmann-Fiedler: Ingeborg Hunzinger. The sculptress. HP Nacke Verlag, Wuppertal 2005, ISBN 3-9808059-6-4 .
  • Bernd Ehrhardt: The sculptor Ingeborg Hunzinger in Spreenhagen. District calendar Oder-Spree, Beeskow 2009.
  • District Office Marzahn-Hellersdorf (ed.): Art in the large housing estate. Works of art in public spaces in Marzahn and Hellersdorf. 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-026730-7 , pp. 72, 119, 124, 136.
  • Rengha Rodewill: Hunzinger - Luxembourg literary, political, artistic. E-book, publisher: artesinex ebook publishing, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-9820572-5-5 .

Web links

Commons : Ingeborg Hunzinger  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary for Ingeborg Hunzinger at berlin.de, July 22, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b c On the traces of life of the sculptor Ingeborg Hunzinger , on wollmann-fiedler.de
  3. ↑ a b c Ingeborg Ruth: Woman, force, resistance. In: Berliner Zeitung . 3rd February 2015.
  4. ^ Obituary in Zeit Online, July 20, 2009.
  5. ^ Art space talk about Ingeborg Hunzinger on March 10, 2015
  6. ^ Art in the large housing estate ... p. 72.
  7. ^ Art in the large housing estate ... p. 119.
  8. ↑ a b c Art in the large housing estate ... p. 136.
  9. ↑ Hunzinger sculpture will be back soon . In: Berliner Morgenpost , Weekend Extra, p. 1.
  10. ↑ The rising one was dismantled , accessed June 11, 2020.
  11. ^ Art in the large housing estate ... p. 124.
  12. ↑ Memory of Ingeborg Hunzinger. In: Berliner Woche , July 24, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Hunzinger, Ingeborg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franck, Ingeborg (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 2009
Place of death Berlin