[1] Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp was born in Wesel and was the daughter of Adalbert Berkenkamp (1868-1947) and his wife Laura Johanna Katharina Darmstädter (1872-1956).

But Margarete Schall, who herself later enrolled in the Bauhaus for a semester, suggested she study at the art school as it was known for its progressive teaching methods.

"After graduating from high school in 1920, Lou Berkenkamp enrolled at the Bauhaus in Weimar and studied under Johannes Itten, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee and Georg Muche.

[6] Berkenkamp lived with her parents in Wesel during the first years of her marriage, with their son Jan Gisbert, born in November 1923.

After Georg Muche, master woodcarver, left for Berlin in 1927, a semi-detached house became available and the Scheper family was able to move in.

During this time Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp wrote articles for the German-language weekly Moskauer Rundschau (Moscow Review) In her contributions she captured the everyday life of people in the big city with an artistic hand and in a socially critical manner.

Inspired by the figures of the Triadic Ballet, she created collages of the basic forms circle, triangle and square.

"After another shorter stay in Moscow in 1931, the Schepers returned to the Bauhaus in Dessau under the new director Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

"There are two ways to respond to disasters: by going mad or by getting into oneself.“ Since the closure of the Bauhaus in 1933, Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp worked as a freelance painter in Berlin.

Repressions in 1934 against her husband Hinnerk, who was forbidden by the Nazis to join the Reich Association of German Photojournalists, also cut off this source of income for the family.

In the publisher Ernst Wunderlich from Leipzig she found the right contact person, with the best technical possibilities of offset printing and a great supporter.

[…] These picture books are bursting with life and movement [...] written by a ‘poet painter‘ who created a unity from text and image.

In the open, democratic and friendly atmosphere of these houses, Lou's timelessly artistic picture stories were able to unfold the narrative stream flow of their art.

[11][12] Besides numerous participations in exhibitions in BRD and partly also abroad, Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp was actively involved in the „Professional association of visual artists“ in Berlin until 1970.

After Hinnerk Scheper's death in 1957, Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp took over his tasks in the field of colour design in the Berlin architectural scene.

Until her death on 11 April 1976 Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp worked on the colour concepts for the Berlin State Library of Scharoun.