Marlis Scharff-Kniemeyer

Designer and visual artist Marlis Scharff-Kniemeyer (born 1949 in Kronberg/Taunus, Germany) first attended a photography school in the Taunus region before taking up her studies at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach in 1973. Since 1980, Marlis Scharff-Kniemeyer has worked as a freelance graphic designer and photographer, including several years in Switzerland. She later fulfilled her desire to capture her environment in illustrative form by studying graphic design. Since 1984 she started illustrating children's books for many different publishers and now works exclusively in the field of children's book illustration. Today she lives in Frankfurt am Main.