INGE KING

he was born Ingeborg Neufeld in Berlin in 1915 and, because of her German-Jewish ancestry, was forced to flee her homeland with the rise of Hitler. She sought refuge in the United Kingdom, first in London and then in Glasgow, where she continued her art studies. After the war, she went to Paris and then New York where she gained privileged access to the heart of the contemporary art scene, but she had fallen in love with the Australian printmaker and painter Grahame King. In 1951 she travelled with him to Melbourne, describing the city memorably at the time as ‘like a can of flat beer.’ She would always say,