King, Inge

I. Neufeld was born in a Jewish family. In 1936 - 1937 he began studying for a sculptor; in 1937 she was admitted to the Berlin Academy of Arts . Inge Inge was expelled from the Academy in 1938 due to her Jewish background. In 1939 she emigrated from Nazi Germany to England , where in 1940 she entered the Royal Academy of Arts , then she studied at the Art School of Glasgow . The first independent work of the girl was a bronze sculpture created in 1943 Warsaw , which embodied the tragedy of World War II. During this period of his creativity I. Neufeld works in London . In 1949 her first solo exhibition took place. In 1950 , during a trip to Paris and New York , the sculptor discovers abstract expressionism . After returning to England in 1951, Inge married the Australian graphic artist Graham King and went with him to Australia.

In the early 1950s , abstractionism in sculpture was virtually unknown in Australia. In 1953, I. King, along with Julius Kane, Clifford Last and Norma Redpath, organized the Art Group of Four in Melbourne, whose members create modernist, abstract sculptures of geometric shapes from various industrial materials. First, I. King worked with stone and wood, and since 1959 has been engaged in carving with autogen on metal. In 1961, the Group of Four, which begins to replenish with new members, was transformed into the Central Group of Five . At the founding meeting, a program of 5 points was formulated, the central of which was the obligation to organize joint exhibitions of group members. Such exhibitions took place in 1963 , 1964 , 1965 , 1974 and in 1984 .

From 1960 until the end of the 1980s , I. King created almost exclusively monumental sculptures made of stainless steel, installed in front of official buildings, in parks and squares. Since 1989, she has also worked with bronze, casting sculptural miniatures.

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  Saturn's rings

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  Silent gong

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  Jabaru

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  Sensuality

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  In memory of the Air Force aces

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  Dialogues of Rings

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  Next, the waves!

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  Lunar mood

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  Red rings

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  Solar tape

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  Island Sculpture

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  Interrupted flight (1964)