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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 has lived in Berlin since 1945. 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 to be an outsider in the art scene:〔Beschreibung/Darstellung von Helmut Börsch-Supan, in: Berger, Ursel; Börsch-Supan, Helmut: ''Katharina … '', … (Ausstellungskatalog)〕 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 1987/1988, 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.〔Katharina Szelinski-Singer: ''Bildhauerarbeiten'' ...〕 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. ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Katharina Szelinski-Singer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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