Ted Scapa

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Ted Schaap (1961)

Ted Scapa (born January 17, 1931 in Amsterdam , actually Eduard Schaap ) is a Dutch - Swiss contemporary artist , former publisher and television presenter .

Life

After studying graphic arts at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and two years of military service as a guard officer, Ted Scapa worked abroad for a few years. a. in India , Indonesia , Hong Kong and the USA . He drew for various international newspapers and magazines such as Punch in England or the Nebelspalter in Switzerland as a cartoonist and published numerous children's books and collections of cartoons.

In 1962 he settled in Switzerland and married Meret Meyer-Benteli, the daughter of the publisher Hans Meyer-Benteli. He then headed the Benteli publishing house in Bern and the associated printing company for almost thirty years . Ted Scapa became a nationally known character figure as the presenter of the children's program Spielhaus on Swiss television in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1991 he handed over the management of the publishing house to his son Till Schaap. Through his publishing activities, he had close contact with the critic Erika Billeter, with whom he wrote dozens of museum catalogs, but also with Jean Tinguely, clown Dimitri and Adolf Ogi .

Since he quit publishing, he has been working as a freelance draftsman and designer . He draws, paints, designs carpets, creates sculptures, objects and light bodies. He is also known to a wider audience as the designer of numerous posters, Swatch watches and Pro Juventute stamps. On July 8, 2009, he opened his Scapa restaurant in Lenk . Since January 17, 2010, Berner by choice has its first and only museum: the "MiniMuseum Scapa" is in the form of a showcase in the Children's Museum Creaviva in the Paul Klee Center . Here he leads workshops that are popular with children and adults .

Ted Scapa was married to the performing and visual artist Meret Meyer Scapa (1930–2016) for over 53 years , is a father of three and grandfather of five. He lives at Vallamand Castle on Lake Murten .

His work has been awarded various international prizes.

Books (selection)

  • Do you bathe too? (as Ted Schaap). Braun & Schneider, Munich 1960
  • Who sees what? An observation game with drawings by Scapa. Benteli, Bern 1967
  • The big trip with grandpa and boots . Artemis, Zurich 1972, ISBN 3-7608-0312-1
  • Bern . A selection of drawings from the Bund . Benteli, Bern 1973
  • Clown . Benteli, Bern 1974
  • Grandpa and boots draw with Scapa . Artemis, Zurich 1976, ISBN 3-7608-0422-5
  • The monthly painters. For coloring . Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk, Zurich 1977
  • November in Venice . Benteli, Bern 1979, ISBN 3-7165-0320-7
  • Trees . Benteli, Bern 1980, ISBN 3-7165-0356-8
  • ... and how is school doing? School joys and sorrows recorded by Scapa. Benteli, Bern 1983, ISBN 3-7165-0438-6
  • Squares . With a colored foreword by Jean Tinguely . Benteli, Bern 1990, ISBN 3-7165-0765-2
  • 111 miniatures . Text by Erika Billeter . Edition Nydegg, Bern 2003
  • Cow cow! with 65 colored drawings u. 5 figs., Text by Erika Billeter . Parlevent Verlag Bern 2005

literature

  • Erika Billeter: SCAPA - The Creativity Adventure . Benteli, Bern 2002, ISBN 3-7165-1226-5
  • Guido Magnaguagno, Annja Müller-Alsbach (eds.): Scapa Memories. A collection . Kehrer, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86828-059-3 (catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Tinguely Museum Basel)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry of “Benteli Verlags AG” in the commercial register of the Canton of Bern  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / be.powernet.ch  
  2. ↑ History of Benteli Verlag ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.benteli.ch
  3. ↑ Helen Lagger: Ted Scapa: Switzerland is a paradise . Interview from October 31, 2016, accessed on November 17, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Scapa, Ted
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaap, Eduard Jacobus (full name); Schaap, Ted
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch-Swiss artist, publisher and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam