Ina Balke (born 1937 ) is a former German model of the 1950s and 1960s. As a child, she had been evacuated from Berlin together with her mother first to Poland and from there in 1945 again fled to Germany.
German model Ina Balke in the 1960s
Before her modeling career Balke was a photo lab assistant. She was discovered by the German fashion photographer Walter E. Lautenbacher and became his muse and long-time lover, he promoted her and made her known through his work in public. Even the major German fashion photographer Regina Relang worked a lot and often with Balke.
After the elections, “Miss Regensburg” and “Miss Amazing” Balke was in the following years, the most famous and most photographed German model of its time. She worked successfully in Paris and New York and gained world fame.
After separating from Lautenbacher, Balke became the lover of the French photographer Jeanloup Sieff. Take a look at these fabulous photos to see portraits of a young Ina Balke as a model in the 1960s.
Ina Balke in Autumn Haze EMBA mink coat from Pelz-Paradies, 1960
Ina Balke in coat by Jacques Heim, photo by Brian Duffy for French Elle, March 1962
Ina Balke in pale pink, light ribbed cotton suit with shirt jacket belted in red leather by Maurice Rentner, photo by Irving Penn, Vogue, June 1962
Ina Balke is wearing Coral Flame lipstick and matching nail enamel by Dorothy Gray, hat by Adolfo, Vogue, September 15, 1962
Ina Balke is wearing make-up by Coty, photo by Jerome Ducrot, 1962
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