Artist Inge Klimpt (1931-2007), was born in Frankfort a/Main, Germany and immigrated to Chicago with her mother in 1939. After Art Institute Junior classes there, she won a scholarship to the Art Students League in New York where she studied with George Grotz, Morris Kantor, Sidney Laufman, and at the American Art School with Raphael Soyer. She served as a sometime model for Soyer, particularly in his Girl in the Yellow Apron. Inge exhibited widely in New York in the 50’s and early 60’s, before moving to Jerusalem where she remained an active artist. She later moved in...more
