page_title: Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp
section_title: "The Ring" 1951 Berlin Artists' Association Exhibitions and new projects
hierarchical_section_title: Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp / After World War II / "The Ring" 1951 Berlin Artists' Association Exhibitions and new projects
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Grab von Hinnerk Scheper und Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp auf dem Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf
context_page_description: Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp nee Hermine Luise Berkenkamp was a German painter, colour designer, the avant-garde author of children's books, fairy-tale illustrator and costume designer.
context_section_description: 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 Scheper's 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 children's home, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall by Hans Scharoun, the Egyptian Museum, various buildings by Walter Gropius in Berlin Britz, Buckow, Rudow and the 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.
  "There is little in the architecture and art of our time that has not been pre-felt, pre-formulated, anticipated at the Bauhaus, even if it rarely seems to be finished, not even always thought through to the end. A fragment, without doubt, this our now already legendary Bauhaus, transfigured by the charm of the unfinished."
  — Lou Scheper, Rückschau 1971, p. 180
  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 couple's joint grave is in the cemetery Zehlendorf.
caption: Scheper-Berkenkamp's grave in Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf Cemetery, Berlin
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