Inge Völtzer was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1931. She studied at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK) between 1961 and 1963, attending drawing, design, and painting courses under Professors Theodor Garve, Walter Arno, and Klaus Bendixen. Records from 1974 indicate that Völtzer received recognition in Chile through a significant exhibition the title of which has not been passed on, but that was reviewed both in El Mercurio of Valparaíso and later in El Mercurio of Santiago.1 In Chile, this was a period marked by censorship and the early years of the military regime, characterized by severe restrictions on artistic freedom and an adverse impact on artistic production. The exhibition, held at the Department of the Ministry of Education, was notable at the time due to the limited availability of institutional and independent spaces for artistic exhibition. The press categorized the works from the show as Nueva Figuración (New Figuration),2 a South American pictorial movement that, in reaction to abstraction and traditional visual languages, returned to the human figure and the depiction of everyday life, seen through the subjective perspective of the artist. From the little information available on her, it is obvious though that throughout the 1970s, Völtzer also taught drawing and watercolor courses at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Chile.
This article was published in February 2026.