Tina Haim-Wentscher
| Tina Haim-Wentscher | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Tina Haim 17 December 1887 Constantinople, Osmanian Empire |
| Died | 21 April 1974 (aged 86) St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia |
| Occupation | Sculptress |
| Spouse(s) |
Julius Wentscher (1881-1961) |
| Parent(s) | David Leon Haim Rebecca Mondolfo |
Tina Haim-Wentscher also: Tina Haim-Wentcher (17 December 1887 – 21 April 1974) was a German-Australian sculptress.
Tina Haim-Wentscher was born in 1887 in Constantinople as a daughter of the originating from Serbia coming merchant David Leon Haim and his Italian wife Rebecca Mondolfo. The family belonged to the Turkish-Sephardi Jews. The family came to Vienna and 1893 to Berlin, where Tina Haim in 1907/08 studied sculpture at a private art school, the Lewin-Funcke-School in Charlottenburg and then ran her own studio. From 1912 to 1914 she stayed several times for studies in Paris, where their works found the interest of the sculptor Auguste Rodin. With a bust of her sister, her first work, she participated in an exhibition of the Berlin Secession. A long-standing friendship linked her to the sculptress Käthe Kollwitz.
In 1914 she married the Berlin painter Julius Wentscher (1881-1961). From 1921 the couple undertook study trips to Greece, Italy, Egypt and a longer trip to Bali and Java in 1931/32. From 1927 to 1931 she was a member of the Association of Berlin artists. In 1933, they decided on the advice of Käthe Kollwitz, not to return to Germany because of the deteriorating situation for Jews. They stayed in China (1932–33) and again Indonesia (1933–34) and in the countries of Indochina, about 1935/36 in Siam and Cambodia, 1936-37 in Singapore and 1936/40 in Malaysia.
With the outbreak of World War II, the couple was deported in 1940 as "Enemy Aliens" to Australia, where they were interned until 1942 in Tatura, Victoria. After her release, they settled in Melbourne and receiving in 1946 the Australian citizenship and anglicized their name to "Wentcher". Tina Haim-Wentcher joined the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, 1958 she was awarded the "Interstate Sculptors Prize" of Newcastle, New South Wales. Her charitable work for the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne led to a close friendship with the philanthropist Dame Elisabeth Murdoch (1909-2012), the mother of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Tina Haim-Wentcher died in 1974 in her 87th year of life in Melbourne.
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