Karin Schepers
Karin Schepers
In the forest of the night, 1962
Karin Schepers (born 1927)
aquatint, etching and drypoint, 3/20
30 x 40 cm image
signed, dated, and editioned below image
Other notes: impressions of this print are in collections of the National Gallery of Australia Accession no NGA 66.33; the National Gallery of Victoria, Accession Number 1455-5; and the Art Gallery of South Australia, Accession number 8110G46
Literature: Grishin, S., Contemporary Australian printmaking: an interpretative history, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1994. p.39
Australian print survey 1963/4, introduction by Daniel Thomas, Art Gallery of N.S.W, 1963
sold
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? William Blake
‘In the forest of the night’, is an excellent example of Schepers’ fine control of fluid, abstract form. It is a beautifully crafted and evocative image.
Karin Schepers was born in Germany and arrived in Australia with her husband, printmaker Udo Sellbach in 1955. She studied at the Kölner Werkschulen 1946-53, and worked as a lithographer at the Kölner Presse 1952-53. With Sellbach she lectured at the South Australian School of Art. They became leading figures in the revitalisation of fine art printmaking in South Australia.
Between 1950-58 she made about 50 lithographs, and between 1960-64 about 40 etchings.
In 1969 Karin Schepers married artist Franz Kempf. After her marriage to Kempf she took the name Tamar (her middle name) Kempf.
Schepers work is held in many the collections including Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria.