Hinnerk Scheper Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1897 - d. 1957

Hinnerk Scheper (1897-1957) completed his art studies in 1915, then continued his studies at the school of arts and crafts in Düsseldorf and Bremen from 1918 to 1919. From 1919 to 1922, he studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar under Johannes Itten and Paul Klee, and also studied mural painting under Itten and Oskar Schlemmer. That same year he married Lou Berkenkamp. From 1922 to 1925 his paintings and designs tended to be two dimensional but at the same time he worked on designs in three dimensions for buildings in Weimar and Münster. Beginning in 1925, he worked as “Jungmeister” running the workshop for graffiti in Dessau until the final closure of the Bauhaus by the Nazis in 1933. From 1929 to 1931 he also worked in Moscow teaching color design and simultaneously taught at the Schule für Gestaltung WChUTEIN creating a photo series about “People and Architecture in the Soviet Union”. In 1932 he worked for Lou Scheper and in 1934 for several photo agencies in Berlin. He saw war service between 1942 and 1945 and after the war was appointed as head of the Office of Historic Preservation and land curator from Berlin, going on in 1952 to teach preservation at the Technical University of Berlin. In 1953 he was given the title “Government Directoras” curator of Berlin