Gabriele Henkel

[citation needed] After a deprived war childhood without schooling, her father sent her to London to be an au pair at the age of 16.

After which she worked as a journalist for the weekly magazines, The Observer and Newsweek, and was the youngest member of the Federal Press Conference when she met Konrad Henkel at the Rhenish Carnival.

[2] The works are located in the offices, meeting rooms and staff canteens at the companies headquarters in Düsseldorf.

[5][6] Through Bazon Brock, she received a lectureship for art history at the University of Wuppertal in 1983 where she became an honorary professor for communication design.

[citation needed] Henkel was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1st Class.