Reichsgau Wartheland
Ingrid Schmeck was born 1944 in Poznań, Reichsgau Wartheland (present-day Poland). She was raised in Eckernförde, Germany. Schmeck studied at the Muthesius Academy of Art in Kiel in book arts, between 1962 and 1967; and between 1971 and 1973 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg.