Early Life and Artistic Beginnings Ingeborg Plockross Irminger (1872–1962) emerged from Copenhagen’s artistic milieu, daughter of Johannes Frederik Plockross, a merchant, and Cathrine Frederikke Tietgen, a woman deeply involved in social reform movements. From a young age, she demonstrated an innate fascination with sculpting—a passion nurtured initially under the tutelage of sculptor Aksel Hansen before formal studies at the Royal Da…