Karin Margareta Jonzen
Other names: nee Karin Löwenadler
Born 22 December 1914
Died 29 January 1998
Active: 1933 - 1970
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, teacher
Born in Britain. Her first husband was Basil Jonzen, a painter. After is death she married Ake Sucksdorff. Karen studied at the Slade School of Fine Art 1933-36 (where she won painting and sculpture prizes and a scholarship for a further year’s study); City and Guilds Art School at Kennington; Royal Academy in Stockholm 1939. Awarded Prix de Rome 1939 and Feodora Gleichen Award 1948. Served as ambulance driver in WWII. Lectured in art appreciation at Camden Arts Centre 1968-72 and London University extra-mural department 1965-70. Member of London Group.
Commissions include: Figure for Sports Pavilion in Festival of Britain 1951; group for Selwyn College Chapel, Cambridge 1956; Leopards for Shepshed High School, Leicestershire 1957; Sydenham Hill Estate, London 1960; exterior carvings for St. Michael’s Church, Golders Green, London 1959 and Guildford Cathedral 1961.
Exhibitions include: regular exhibitor at Royal Academy from 1944; LCC 1948; SB 1951; The Seasons, Tate Gallery, London, 1956.
Collections include: Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Arts Council; City Art Gallery and Museum, Bradford; National Art Gallery, Melbourne.
Further reading: Karin Jonzen, Fieldborne Galleries, St. John’s Wood, London, 29 May – 19 June 1974, (exh. cat. includes essay by artist).
Karin Jonzen, Sculptor, David Messum Fine Art, London, undated, (exh. cat.).
Biography from Whiteley (2001) with additional information from 'Who Was Who' (2007)
Locations
Address 22 Oakwood Court London W13 | View on map
1944 (Circa)
Address 9 Redcliffe Square London | View on map
1945 - 1949
Address 9 South Bolton Gardens London SW5 | View on map
1947 (Circa) - 1951 (Circa)
Address The White House Chelsworth near Ipswich | View on map
1950 - 1960
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1944 - 1970
Exhibited 23 times (8 times up to 1951), usually showed two to three works per year
Won prize Lady Feodora Gleichen Fund (Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1922-1951
1946
Won the £100 prize for her terracotta work entitled 'Kneeling Figure', which had been exhibited at the Royal Academy.
Institutional and Business Connections
Unsuccessful in ballot for election to Royal Academy of Arts
Despite nominations in 1949, 1957 and 1964.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by Robert Buhler
24 April 1949
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Gilbert Ledward
21 April 1949 - March 1957
Two nominations for Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], in 1949 and 1957, both unsuccessful.
Nominated by James Arthur Woodford
21 April 1949
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Charles Thomas Wheeler
21 April 1949
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Arnold Mason
21 April 1949
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Edward Le Bas
21 April 1949 - March 1957
Two nominations for Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], in 1949 and 1957, both unsuccessful.
Nominated by William McMillan
21 April 1949
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by John Northcote Nash
21 April 1949
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Alan Lydiat Durst
March 1957
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Malcolm Osborne
March 1957
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Augustus Edwin John
March 1957
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Carel Victor Morlais Weight
March 1957
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Sources
Directory of sculptors working and exhibiting in Britain in the 1950s, by Gillian Whiteley
2001
pp. 18-9
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, c.1939-c.1961
1961 (Circa)
p.205.
Who was Who
December 2007
‘JONZEN, Karin’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U179604, accessed 14 Jan 2009]
Citing this record
'Karin Margareta Jonzen', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1217504325, accessed 02 Oct 2023]
