Katharina Szelinski-Singer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Memelland, Lithuania
About Katharina Szelinski-Singer
- Katharina Szelinski-Singer, born as Katharina Singer (24 May 1918 in Neusassen, nearby Heydekrug, Memelland – 20 December 2010 in Berlin) was a German sculptor.
- She lived in Berlin from 1945 until her death. Katharina Szelinski-Singer was an accomplished sculptor who studied at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she was a master student of Richard Scheibe.
- Shortly after finishing her studies in the mid-fifties she was commissioned to do a sculpture for park "Hasenheide" in Berlin.
- The sculpture was intended to honour the German Trümmerfrauen (German for: rubble women), those women who after the end of the Second World War played a major role in rebuilding the city by clearing up the rubble of the damaged buildings.
- This limestone-sculpture is until now her most well-known work in a public place.
- After several similar but smaller commissions she lived from 1956 till 1986 mainly from doing restoring work at the Charlottenburg Palace.
- Katharina Szelinski-Singer was considered an outsider in the art scene: Although following up a different career path she continued to sculpture, but till 1987 her work could only rarely be seen in exhibitions.
- This changed in 1987–88, when the Georg-Kolbe-Museum showed her work in a large exhibition dedicated only to her.
- All in all 45 of her sculptures have been shown there. Her work consists roughly of one hundred sculptures which are without exemption figurative.
- She is practically always showing bodies or heads of women; very often they are an image of herself or influenced by elements from her own life.
- With the sculpture series Köpfe (German for: Heads) she was able to free herself to some extent from the influence of her teacher Richard Scheibe and develop new ways to express herself.
- This resulted also in a more extensive usage of bronze and gypsum, after a long period of working with natural stone.
- Art experts judge her work to be in line with the so-called "Berliner Bildhauerschule" (Berlin sculptor school). She died on 20 December 2010, at age 92, in Berlin and was buried at the Friedhof Heerstraße.
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