Title

King, Inge.

Author

Australian Prints.

Source

[Not applicable]

Publication date

2001

Type

Biography

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

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Inge King

Inge King (née Neufeld) was born in Berlin, Germany in 1918. She trained as an apprentice wood carver for two years, attending the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts for her final year. In 1939 she was awarded a scholarship and travelled to London, where she attended the Royal Academy of Art and the London Central School of Arts and Crafts. She was awarded her diploma and post-diploma through the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, where she studied for two years under the tutorage of Benno Schotz. Through these institutions King received a classical training in sculpture, and learned silversmithing. She also produced a few etchings at this time.

King came to Australia from New York in 1951 ‘by the accident’ of marrying the Melbourne painter Graham King. The same year she held her first exhibition in Australia, with her husband, exhibiting jewellery and sculpture. The exhibition was well received; comments on her work emphasised its sophistication and her sensitive handling of materials. By the late 1950s King was producing large abstract sculptures of welded steel.

Her work forged new directions for the growth of sculpture in Australia. She was a founding member of the Centre Five Group of sculptors, which was influential in the Melbourne art scene, particularly in its attitude to the role monumental sculpture played in relation to architecture and the wider community.

Since the late 1990s King has produced a number of prints.

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