Immeke Mitscherlich

Immeke Mitscherlich née Emma Catarina Caroline Schwollmann (1899–1985)[1] was a German textile artist.

After completing studies in weaving in the late-1920s at the Bauhaus in Dessau, she married the artist Alexander Mitscherlich in March 1929 and moved with him to Krefeld in 1932.

When her husband died in 1940, she worked for various textile manufacturers and taught at Krefeld's Textilingenieurschule (Weaving School) where she remained until her retirement in 1965.

[1] In the late 1920s, she worked as a weaver in Dessau, Magdeburg and Partenkirchen before moving to Berlin where she married Alexander Mitscherlich.

[2] Mitscherlich's most celebrated work is the huge tapestry she designed for the State Parliament in North Rhine Westphalia.