Editing Imogen Stuart (section)

{{short description|Irish sculptor (1927–2024)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox artist
| name        = Imogen Stuart
| image       = Imogen Stuart.jpg
| caption     = Imogen Stuart in 2011
| birth_name  = Imogen Werner
| birth_date  = 1927
| birth_place = [[Berlin]], Germany
| death_date  = {{death date and age|2024|03|24|1927|05|25|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Dublin]], Ireland
| occupation  = Sculptor
| works       = {{plainlist|
* ''Stations of the Cross'', wood, 1957, [[The Curragh]]
*''Main Doors and Reliefs'' 1963–4, [[Galway Cathedral]]
*Altar carvings, [[Honan Chapel]], 1988
*''Penal Cross'', wood, 1988, [[Lough Derg, County Donegal|Lough Derg]]
*''Monument to [[Pope John Paul II]]'', late 1980s{{sfn|Forristal|1987|pp=648—651}}
*''Portrait bust of [[Sean McBride]]'', bronze, 1990
*''President [[Mary Robinson]]'', bronze, 1998<ref name="aos">"[http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/members/stuart/ Visual Arts: Imogen Stuart]". [[Aosdána]], [[Arts Council (Ireland)|Irish Arts Council]]. Retrieved 30 March 2024</ref>
}}
| education   = 
| spouse      = Ian Stuart (div. 1973)
| parents     = [[Bruno E. Werner]]
| website     = {{URL|http://www.imogenstuart.com/}}
}}

'''Imogen Stuart''' ([[née]] '''Werner'''; 1927 – 24 March 2024) was a German-Irish<ref>"[https://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_miriammeets.xml Interview with Miriam O'Callaghan]". [[RTÉ Radio 1]], ''[[Miriam O'Callaghan|Miriam meets]]'', 17 May 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2024</ref> sculptor, influenced by 19th-century [[Expressionism]] and [[Insular art|early Irish Christian art]]. She mainly produced wood and stone for settings for churches but also created many secular works, and was exhibited internationally.

Born and raised in pre-war Berlin as the daughter of the art critic [[Bruno E. Werner]], she was exposed to [[Modernism|modern developments]] in the visual arts from an early age and a significant influence on her later work. She studied in [[Bavaria]] under the sculptor and professor [[Otto Hitzberger]], who became an early mentor. She met her fellow Hitzberger student and later important Irish sculptor Ian Stuart while in Bavaria in 1948. The couple moved to Ireland in 1961, at first living at his parents' house in [[Glendalough]], [[Co. Wicklow]], before moving to [[Sandycove]], [[Co. Dublin]].{{sfn|Heaney|2024}} Ian Stuart was the grandson of the [[Irish republican]] revolutionary [[Maud Gonne]]. They had three daughters but divorced in 1973.

During her long career, she became one of Ireland's best-known sculptors, with her work placed in both public spaces and private collections throughout Europe and the U.S.