Artist Info
Elsbeth Kupferoth
Elsbeth Kupferoth is a German designer.
After studying at the Textile and Fashion School in Berlin and at the German Fashion Institute, 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.
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 fabric printing companies and wallpaper manufacturers such as Pausa AG, AS, Marburger Tapeten and Bammental.
In 1949 her fabrics were shown at the “Werkbund exhibition” in Cologne and in 1954 in Reykjavík at the exhibition “Werkkunst in Deutschland”. Her designs were shown in a separate 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.
