Ingeborg Viktoria "Inge" King AM (née Neufeld; 26 November 1915 – 23 April 2016) was a German-born Australian sculptor.

Inge King (née Ingeborg Viktoria Neufeld) was born in Berlin on 26 November 1915, the youngest of four girls in a well-to-do Jewish family.

[10] While she was there, she supported herself by undertaking commercial work (such as carving architectural ornaments) for the sculptor, Otto Hitzberger (1878–1964), who was on the staff there.

She also went to evening classes in life drawing at the London Central School of Arts and Crafts until it moved to Northampton, where there were no facilities for sculpture.

Born in Estonia of Jewish parents, he migrated to Glasgow as a young man and studied sculpture at night-classes while working for a shipbuilding company.

... Schotz had the highly developed technical skills of a successful practising artist and was alive to the hands-on realities of making sculpture as much as he was to the compelling political and social ideas of the times.

[20] A fellow student of Schotz's at Glasgow at this time was Margaret Priest, who later emigrated to Perth in Western Australia, where she became an important local sculptor.

[21] She was impressed by the cosmopolitan atmosphere and wider experience of the world brought to the Glasgow School by King and the other refugee students.

She later recollected that: "There were assorted part-time students who came and went around the School of Art ... [King] was always free with advice and help and tools and materials so that they became absorbed in our group.

Picasso’s Guernica of 1937 and his other war-inspired painting and sculpture and the work of other European artists were now the subject of endless discussion.

The Glasgow choirs sang Scottish folk songs and Afro-American spirituals: music that had been suppressed in Germany and was a revelation to refugees like King, who understood its relevance to the times.

The exhibition included works by Camille Pissarro, Max Liebermann, Josef Herman, Jankel Adler, Chaïm Soutine, Ossip Zadkine, Ernst Barlach and Benno Schotz himself.

[25] The Glasgow Art Gallery acquired a bronze sculpture by Ossip Zadkine, the [1] Music Group], for its collection.

The Glasgow Herald described it as the "outstanding item" among the recent acquisitions, "the first really 'modern' piece of sculpture in the city’s permanent collection".

[27] Warsaw was another significant work by King from this period, a small sculpture whose inspiration comes from her response to the events in Europe.

Early in 1947, she went to live at the Abbey Art Centre, an artists' community located in New Barnet, Hertfordshire, near London.

These included Robert Klippel, James Gleeson, Phillip Martin, Oliffe Richmond, Noel Counihan and Bernard Smith, who became an art historian.

She did not want to stay in Europe, and, after visiting New York, "equated Australia with the USA, as part of the bright new world where she could work in a lively and adventurous atmosphere and rear a family.

[39] The Kings bought an acre of land on a bare hillside at Warrandyte, a small settlement in the Yarra valley, about 25 km north-east of Melbourne.

Building her own home and rearing children helped to bring a certain stability to King’s life after the unsettling experience of leaving two countries to live in a third.

Here everything was so very different from the old world [that] it took time to mend the breaks, first with Germany where much she had valued was destroyed, and then with Britain where she had been welcomed and had received most of her formal education in sculpture.

This group grew from a meeting convened by Julius Kane in Melbourne in 1961 to "help foster greater public awareness of contemporary sculpture in Australia".

Members of the group included Julius Kane, Lenton Parr, Inge King, Vincas Jomantas, Clifford Last, Teisutis Zikaras and Norma Redpath.

Another retrospective exhibition including the work of Grahame King (who died in 2008) was held at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2014.

The Royal Australian Air Force Memorial, situated on Anzac Parade, Canberra, was King's first significant public commission, gained as the result of a competition.

The memorial had to symbolise the aspirations and the achievements of the RAAF, as embodied in the Air Force motto: Per Ardua ad Astra (through adversity to the stars).

The structure consists of three stainless steel panels, reminiscent of aircraft wings, the tallest nearly 8 metres high, which are separate but related to each other.

A plaque mounted on the plinth explains that the "three upsurging wing shapes in ground stainless steel represent endurance, strength and courage, while the bronze flight image embodies man's struggle to conquer the elements".

[52] It provides the students with a unique resting place among its massive unfurling bands and is the focal point of one of the university's busiest outdoor spaces, the Union Lawn.

see more images Rings of Saturn is located in the Sir Rupert Hamer Garden, in the grounds of the Heide Museum of Modern Art [3] in Bulleen, a suburb of Melbourne.