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Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp née Hermine Luise Berkenkamp ( 15 May 1901 – 11 April 1976 ) was a German painter , colour designer , the avant-garde author of childrens books , fairy-tale illustrator and costume designer . Early life . Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp was born in Wesel and was the daughter of Adalbert Berkenkamp ( 1868-1947 ) and his wife Laura Johanna Katharina Darmstädter ( 1872-1956 ) . She had two brothers Alfred ( 1896-1917 ) and Walter ( 1910-1994 ) . Her father and her uncle Heinrich , managed the paper and paper bag factory in Wesel which had been founded by her grandfather Heinrich Berkenkamp in 1865 . Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp graduated from elementary school , then attended a grammar school for four years and went on to attend the Viktoria-Schule in Essen , a girls grammar school with progressive teaching . Through the art teacher Margarete Schall ( 1896-1939 ) her talent for colours and painting was discovered . Hermine Louise Berkenkamp originally wanted to study medicine or German philologie . But Margarete Schall , who herself later enrolled in the Bauhaus for a semester , suggested she study at the art school as it was known for its progressive teaching methods . The Bauhaus period . After graduating from high school in 1920 , Lou Berkenkamp enrolled at the Bauhaus in Weimar and studied under Johannes Itten , Lyonel Feininger , Paul Klee and Georg Muche . She became acquainted with Hinnerk Scheper , a classmate in the mural painting workshop there and married him on December 24 , 1922 in Weimar . Berkenkamp lived with her parents in Wesel during the first years of her marriage , with their son Jan Gisbert , born in November 1923 . During this time the first pictures letters were created . In 1922 the couple left the Bauhaus Weimar and while Lou focused on her artistic work , Hinnerk Scheper worked as a colour designer . In 1925 , he was called to the Bauhaus in Dessau as a master of the mural painting workshop at the Bauhaus Dessau . In 1926 their daughter Britta was born in Dessau . After Georg Muche , master woodcarver , left for Berlin in 1927 , a semi-detached house became available and the Scheper family was able to move in . Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp worked - without matriculation - in the stage workshop of the Bauhaus under the direction of Oskar Schlemmer . Lou supported an important area of Schlemmers work with the development of costumes , choreographies , sets and puppets for Triadisches Ballett , premiere 1922 in Stuttgart , further developed by Oskar Schlemmer in 1926 with music by Hindemith . She designed and directed costumes and sets for the plays Ojdar“ and Circus and directed . In the group exhibition Junge Bauhausmaler ( Young Bauhaus Painter ) , in Halle ( Saale ) , she took 1928 part . She also created also a number of childrens books until the couples 1929 departure from Dessau . Family Scheper remained associated with the Bauhaus until its closure in 1933 and beyond . Moscow 1929 to 1931 . From July 1929 to August 1930 the Schepers followed a call to Moscow . Hinnerk Scheper , a specialist in colour design , was to set up a Consultation Centre for Colour in Architecture and Cityscapes ( Russian Maljarstroj ) for the entire Soviet Union . Together they worked on the colour plans . During this time Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp wrote articles for the German-language weekly Moskauer Rundschau ( Moscow Review ) In her contributions she captured the everyday life of people in the big city with an artistic hand and in a socially critical manner . In the service of her husband , she did not publish her own works in Moscow and supported Hinnerk in organizational problems . Inspired by the figures of the Triadic Ballet , she created collages of the basic forms circle , triangle and square . With her abstract work she critically opposed the standardization of architecture and the Soviet citizens . She painted Moscows street life with ink and opaque colours . This resulted in ironic text and skillful picture designs . The National Socialism period . After another shorter stay in Moscow in 1931 , the Schepers returned to the Bauhaus in Dessau under the new director Ludwig Mies van der Rohe . When the Bauhaus moved in 1932 , they also moved to the capital Berlin . Due to the worsening political situation in Germany in 1932 , further cooperation with Soviet colleagues was no longer conceivable . The right-wing magistrate in Dessau , the leading faction in the city council since 1931 , cut all funding for the Bauhaus . On October 1 , 1932 , the Bauhaus Dessau closed down involuntarily and under high political pressure . The building was used as the Gauführerschule of the NSDAP . Mies van der Rohe wanted to continue the Bauhaus in Berlin with his own funds under the title Free Teaching and Research Institute in the former Steglitz telephone factory , but the fascists forced him to close the institute on 20 July 1933 . From then on , the teachers had to secure their livelihood with casual jobs . Some Bauhaus artists emigrated to Palestine and the USA . Since the closure of the Bauhaus in 1933 , Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp worked as a freelance painter in Berlin . Between 1933 and 1945 , Scheper-Berkenkamp designed a number of childrens books , many of which were published following the Second World War by the publisher Ernst Wunderlich , Leipzig . Her son Dirk was born in Berlin in 1938 . Lou accompanied Hinnerk on his Norddeutsche Reportage-Reisen and wrote texts for his various landscape photo series of landscapes . Repressions in 1934 against her husband Hinnerk , who was forbidden by the Nazis to join the Reich Association of German Photojournalists , also cut off this source of income for the family . So they concentrated on the colour design of public houses , murals and restoration work . Hinnerk Scheper did military service in Germany from 1942 to 1945 . During this time , Lou provided for the family alone . She invented picture stories , which were not published as childrens books until by Ernst Wunderlich Verlag in Leipzig . The family survived the war years in complete seclusion . After World War II . Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp and her children Britta , Jan Giesbert , Dirk and her parents , whose house in Wesel was destroyed by the war , had experienced the end of the war in Badbergen . In 1945 the Berlin magistrate appointed Hinnerk Scheper as a monument conservator and state curator of Berlin and his wife supported him in his work . From now on she devoted herself again to her artistic work and looked for a way to publish childrens books . In the publisher Ernst Wunderlich from Leipzig she found the right contact person , with the best technical possibilities of offset printing and a great supporter . In 1950/51 she took part in exhibitions of picture book originals . Her works were shown in America Houses in Kassel , Darmstadt , Frankfurt , Gießen , Marburg and Wiesbaden . These American institutions were established around 1950 in West Germany in the spirit of democratic educational work by the Allies . In the open , democratic and friendly atmosphere of these houses , Lous timelessly artistic picture stories were able to unfold the narrative stream flow of their art . The Ring 1951 Berlin Artists Association Exhibitions and new projects . In 1951 Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp was one of the co-founders of the Berlin artists association The Ring , of which she was a member of the board until 1970 . The members included Erhard Groß ( 1926- 2011 Berlin ) , Wilhelm Peter August Helmstedt ( * September 3 , 1904 in Wilhelmshaven ; † 10 . March 1976 in Berlin ) , Arno Mohr , Arthur Fauser , Peter Steinforth , Alfred Kubin , Wolf Röhricht , Siegmund Lympasik , Ulrich Knispel , Otto Eglau , Erich Waske , Georg von Stryk ( Gory ) ( * 30 . Au gust Dorpat ; † 14 December Berlin ) , Walter Wellenstein ( * 21 May 1898 Dortmund ; † 17 October 1970 Berlin ) , Erich Fritz Reuter , Gerhart Schreiter and Hans Szym . She exhibited with her artist colleagues for several years in the Haus am Waldsee in Berlin-Zehlendorf . Besides numerous participations in exhibitions in BRD and partly also abroad , Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp was actively involved in the „Professional association of visual artists“ in Berlin until 1970 . Between 1956 and 1969 she was jointly responsible for the annual [ [ Great Berlin Art Exhibition ] Great Berlin Art Exhibition. ] After Hinnerk Schepers death in 1957 , Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp took over his tasks in the field of colour design in the Berlin architectural scene . Among other things , she was involved in the colour design of the interiors of the last project realized by [ [ Otto Bartning ] ] , a Berlin childrens home , the [ [ Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra|Berlin Philharmonic Hall ] ] by [ [ Hans Scharoun ] ] , the [ [ Egyptian Museum of Berlin|Egyptian Museum ] ] , various buildings by [ [ Walter Gropius ] ] in Berlin [ [ Britz ] ] , [ [ Buckow ] ] , [ [ Rudow ] ] and the [ [ Airport Tegel|Airport Building Berlin-Tegel ] ] . Until her death on 11 April 1976 Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp worked on the colour concepts for the [ [ Berlin State Library ] ] of Scharoun . [ [ File:Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf Hinnerk und Lou Scheper.jpg|thumb|Scheper-Berkenkamps grave in [ [ Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf ] ] Cemetery , Berlin ] ] Following the death of her husband in 1957 , Scheper-Berkenkamp worked as an architectural colorist , participating in a number of major projects , including [ [ Berliner Philharmonie ] ] by [ [ Hans Scharoun ] ] , [ [ Egyptian Museum of Berlin ] ] , and [ [ Berlin Tegel Airport ] ] . Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp died on 11 April 1976 in Berlin . The couples joint grave is in the cemetery Zehlendorf . The Scheper family . 22 December 1922 she married husband [ [ Hinnerk Scheper ] ] ( Gerhard Hermann Heinrich Scheper ) in the town church of [ [ St . Peter und Paul , Weimar|St . Peter and Paul in Weimar ] ] . The following children resulted from the marriage : Jan Gisbert ( * November 7 , 1923 ) Britta ( * 28 March 1926 ; † 14 January 2012 ) Dirk ( * 21 August 1938 ) Her daughter-in-law became the wife of son Dirk , Renate Scheper . Own literary works . - Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp art exhibition May–June 1948 ; Staatl . Schlossmuseum Rudolstadt Author : Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp ; Publisher : Rudolstadt Heidecksburg Directorate of the Staatliches Schlossmuseum 1948 - Lou Scheper : witnessed and helped to shape - from the bauhaus to today . In : I-Dot COLOUR . Düsseldorf 3/1964 . - Scheper , Lou : Review . In : Neumann , Eckhard ( Ed. ) : Bauhaus and Bauhäusler . Memories and Confessions . Dumont Paperbacks . Cologne : DuMont 1985 ( EA Bern , Stuttgart 1971 ) . - The Narkomfin Community House in Moscow , 1928-2012 : Dom Narkomfina ( Russian Дом Наркомфина ) - the House of the Peoples Commissariat of Finance : and the ICOMOS - ISC 20C - Madrid Document 2011 Author : Moissei Jakowlewitsch Ginsburg ; Hinnerk Scheper ; Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp ; Johannes Cramer ; Anke Zalivako ; et al . - Phantastics : the Bauhäusler Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp Authors : Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp ; Annemarie Jaeggi ; [ [ Edzard Reuter ] ] ; Dirk Scheper ; Renate Scheper ; All authors Verlag Bramsche : Rasch , 2012 . - Ways to preserve the architectural heritage of the 20th century : Authors M IA . Ginzburg ; Hinnerk Scheper ; Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp ; Johannes Cramer ; Anke Zalivako ; et al . Verlag : Petersberg : Michael Imhof , cop . 2013 . Picture letters Lou Scheper to Marie-Luise Betlheim 1922-1936 and Hinnerk Scheper . - Picture Letters : Bauhäusler Lou Scheper to Marie-Luise Betlheim : Weimar , Dessau , Berlin , 1922-1936 = ( Croatian Ilustrirana pisma : Baushausovka Lou Scheper za Marie-Luise Betlheim : Weimar , Dessau , Berlin , 1922-1936 . author Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp ) Publisher : [ [ Zagreb ] ] : UPI2M PLUS and Museum of Contemporary Art , 2015 . - Map of the illustrated letters from Lou Scheper to Marie-Luise Betlheim ( Croatian Mapa ilustriranih pisama Lou Scheper za Marie-Luise Betlheim ) Author : Korana Sutlić Objavljeno ( Published ) : 10.06.2015 at 07:18 - Picture Letters for Hinnerk Scheper Bauhaus Women : A Global Perspective from Elizabeth Otto & Patrick Rössler publisher HERBERT PRESS 2019 Published picture books . - Knirps , ein ganz kleines Ding Ernst Wunderlich , 1st-25th district , Ts . 1948 . six-coloured [ [ offset printing ] ] , 16 pp . 10.5×14.8 cm . Stapled . Reprint : Berlin : Bauhaus Archive 2012 . - Doll Lenchen . Leipzig : Ernst Wunderlich 1st-25th pp . 1948 . six-colour offset print,16 pp . 10.5×14.8 cm . Stapled . Reprint : Berlin : Bauhaus Archive 2012 . - Tönnchen , Knöpfchen und andere . Leipzig : Ernst Wunderlich 1948 . six-colour offset print , 12 pp . 10,5×14,8 cm . Stapled . - The stories of Jan and Jon and of their pilot fish . Leipzig : Ernst Wunderlich 1948 . eight-colour offset print , 20 p . 29,7×21 cm . Paperback Unpublished childrens book manuscripts . - Bälkchen erzählt seine Geschichte 1948 . Up 15,000 . Liz . 154.20 pg . 29.7×21 cm ( announced In preparation ) . - Die ernsthafte Geschichte von den vertriebenen und wieder versöhnten Gestirnen . For children from 8–14 years and for their parents , as far as they are not yet too grown up . Printing permission of the Cultural Advisory Council for Publishing of April 1948 . ed . 20.000 . 48 p . 29,7×21 cm ( announced In preparation ) . - The blotter children and their dog . 16 S . ( announced in 1948 ) . - Blümchens Abenteuer , eine wunderliche Geschichte . 14 S . ( announced in 1948 ) . - The Vain Little Girl Story ( created c . 1949 ) . - Sonderbare Reise eines kleinen Mädchens namens Tüttchen und eines namenlosen aber goldenen Kirchturmhahnes ( design c . 1949 ) . - Carnival ( design c.1949 ) . - The story of a childs last dream ( design c.1949 ) Literature . - Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Childrens Literature edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer , Anja Muller / Routledge New Yorg an London 2017 ( hbk ) ( ebk ) <rfe>Avant-garde Echoes : Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp and the Aestethics of the Bauhaus p . 130</ref ) - Dirk Scheper : Biographical data on the life of Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp , Berlin 1987 , Bauhaus Archive Berlin - Ulrike Müller : Bauhaus women . Masters in Art , Craft and Design , Munich 2009 - Barbara Murken : Actually , Id rather sit as the crow flies than in a chair.. . The magical world of images of the Bauhaus artist Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp , in : The Book Castle . News from the International Youth Library 2009 , Munich 2010 , pp . 77–84 - Bauhaus Archive Berlin / Museum of Design , Fantastics : The Bauhäusler Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp , Berlin 2012 - Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp . In : Elizabeth Otto , Patrick Rösler ( Ed. ) : Women at the * Bauhaus . Pioneering women artists of the modern age . Knesebeck , Munich 2019 . . pp . 44–45 . - Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp . Catalogue of the Staatl . Schlossmuseum Rudolstadt . Text : Suse Wintgen . Rudolstadt 1948 . - Detlef Hoffmann : History of dolls . In : Doderer , Encyclopedia of Childrens and Youth Literature , 1979 , pp . 99–104 . - Bettina Hürlimann : European childrens books in three centuries . Zurich , Freiburg : Atlantis 1959 . External links . - Biography ( en ) Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp https://www.bauhaus-bookshelf.org/lou-scheper-berkenkamp-english.html ( accessed May 4 , 2020 ) - Wikipedia Biography ( de ) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Scheper-Berkenkamp - Biography ( de ) Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp https://www.bauhaus-bookshelf.org/lou-scheper-berkenkamp.html ( accessed May 4 , 2020 ) - https://www.bauhaus100.com/the-bauhaus/people/students/lou-scheper-berkenkamp/ ( accessed on 29 November 2012 ) - ( de ) https://www.bauhaus100.de/das-bauhaus/koepfe/studierende/lou-scheper-berkenkamp/ ( accessed on 8 March 2019 ) - Osnabrück shows Scheper-Berkenkamp https://www.noz.de/deutschland-welt/kultur/artikel/421456/vom-bauhaus-in-die-welt-der-fantasie#gallery&11994&0&421456 ( accessed on 25 April 2020 ) - Oskar Schlemmer Triadic Ballet - Works by Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp Picture letters to [ [ Maria Rasch ] ] her friend and Walter Gropius , illustrations https://www.design-is-fine.org/search/Lou+scheper ( accessed April 30 , 2020 ) [ [ Category:1901 births ] ] [ [ Category:1976 deaths ] ] [ [ Category:20th-century German women artists ] ] [ [ Category:Artists from North Rhine-Westphalia ] ] [ [ Category:Bauhaus alumni ] ] [ [ Category:People from Wesel ] ] [ [ Category:Burials at the Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf ] ]