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.
18 Facts About Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp
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Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp was born in Wesel and was the daughter of Adalbert Berkenkamp and his wife Laura Johanna Katharina Darmstadter.
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Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp had two brothers Alfred and Walter.
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Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp became acquainted with Hinnerk Scheper, a classmate in the mural painting workshop there and married him on 24 December 1922 in Weimar.
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In 1922 the couple left the Bauhaus Weimar and while Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp focused on her artistic work, Hinnerk Scheper worked as a colour designer.
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Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp worked - without matriculation - in the stage workshop of the Bauhaus under the direction of Oskar Schlemmer.
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Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp supported an important area of Schlemmer's 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.
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Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp created a number of children's books until the couple's 1929 departure from Dessau.
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Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp painted Moscow's street life with ink and opaque colours.
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Since the closure of the Bauhaus in 1933, Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp worked as a freelance painter in Berlin.
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Between 1933 and 1945, Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp designed a number of children's books, many of which were published following the Second World War by the publisher Ernst Wunderlich, Leipzig.
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Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp's son Dirk was born in Berlin in 1938.
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Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp accompanied Hinnerk on his "Norddeutsche Reportage-Reisen" and wrote texts for his various landscape photo series of landscapes.
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Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp invented picture stories, which were not published as children's books until by Ernst Wunderlich Verlag in Leipzig.
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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.
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Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp exhibited with her artist colleagues for several years in the "Haus am Waldsee" in Berlin-Zehlendorf.
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Until her death on 11 April 1976 Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp worked on the colour concepts for the Berlin State Library of Scharoun.
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Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp died on 11 April 1976 in West Berlin, at the time a landlocked enclave surrounded entirely by East Germany and connected to the rest of West Germany by a highway corridor.