Elsbeth Kupferoth

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Elsbeth Kupferoth (* before 1949 in Berlin ) is a German designer . She lives in Munich.

Life

After studying at the Textile and Fashion School in Berlin and at the German Fashion Institute with Maria May, Elsbeth Kupferoth worked as an illustrator , including on the satirical post-war magazine Eulenspiegel and in the feature section of the Neue Zeitung headed by Erich Kästner . Her critical drawings in the US magazine Look caused a sensation. Designs for the Heinz Schulze-Varell fashion studio.

She has worked as a designer for decorative fabrics and wallpapers in Europe, the USA and Japan since the 1950s . Together with her husband, she founded the textile publishing house Kupferoth-Drucke in Munich in 1956, where she employed up to 100 people. The company was sold in 1985. She worked together with textile printing and wallpaper manufacturers such as Pausa AG, AS, Marburger Tapeten and Bammental.

In 1949 their fabrics were shown at the “Werkbund exhibition” in Cologne and in 1954 in Reykjavík at the exhibition “Werkkunst in Deutschland”. Your designs were u. a. also exhibited in its own exhibition at the Landesgewerbemuseum in Stuttgart . Her designs were awarded at the Milan “Triennale”. The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has added several of her works to the collection.

Kupferoth lives and works as a freelance painter in Munich .

literature

  • Architecture and style of living. Vol. 57, No. 6, 1949, p. 128; Vol. 61, 1952/53, appendix to issue 6, p. 28; Jg. 63, 1954/55, pp. 222, 223; Vol. 64, 1955/56, pp. 160, 161.
  • The art and the beautiful home. Vol. 51, 1953, pp. I 261, 262, 264; Volume 53, 1955, p. 70.
  • Magnum. Issue 12, 1957 (advertisement); Issue 23, April 1959, p. 58.
  • Maria Neppert-Boehland: German Textiles. F Lewis, Leigh-on-Sea 1955, ISBN 0-85317-410-5 , fig. 51.
  • Heinrich Olligs (Ed.): Wallpapers. Your history to the present (Vol. 3). Klinkhardt u. Biermann, Braunschweig 1969, pp. 334, 344.
  • Printed by Taunus Textildruck. 30 years of textile printing in Germany using the example of a company. Exhibition cat. of the German Textile Museum Krefeld, 1983, p. 20.
  • Hans Wichmann: From Morris to Memphis. Textiles from the New Collection from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century (= Volume 3 of the collection catalogs of the New Collection, Munich). Birkhäuser Verlag AG, Basel 1990, ISBN 3-7643-2313-2 , pp. 232, 310.
  • Karin Thönennis: The third skin. From living and design In: Jürgen Krause: The useful modern. Graphic and product design in Germany 1935-1955. Exhibition of the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History Münster from March 19 to June 4, 2000. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-88789-135-X , pp. 156–158.
  • Charlotte and Peter Fiell (eds.): 70s Decorative Art. Taschen Verlag, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8228-6406-4 , p. 453.
  • Jutta Beder : Between Blümchen and Picasso. Textile design of the fifties in West Germany. Lit, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6032-9 , pp. 69–71, 187–193.
  • Lesley Jackson: 20th Century Pattern Design. Mitchell Beazley, 2002, ISBN 1-84000-371-5 .
  • Who is who? - The German Who's Who. 3rd edition 2004/05. Schmidt-Römhild, 2004, ISBN 3-7950-2038-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kyra Stromberg: We live between walls. In: Die Zeit , No. 10/1956.
  2. ↑ Database detailing fabrics in the collection designed by Elsbeth Kupferoth. At: elsbethkupferoth.de
personal data
SURNAME Kupferoth, Elsbeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin