Helene Nonné-Schmidt
[1] Helene Nonné was born on 8 November 1891, in the Buckau district of Magdeburg, as the daughter of the engineer Franz Nonne and his wife Leokadya Koterwas.Since 1925, she was married[5] to Joost Schmidt (1893–1948), a typographer and painter who taught at the Bauhaus and was the head of the sculpture workshop, the advertising department, and the printing press.[7] Until that year, they lived on Burgkühnauer Allee in one of the Master's Houses and then moved to Berlin, where Joost Schmidt taught at the Reimann School.In 1953, Max Bill invited Nonné, as everyone called her,[9] to the newly founded Ulm School of Design, where she conducted the preliminary course[10] in the first years alongside former Bauhaus members Josef Albers, Walter Peterhans, and Johannes Itten.In 1961, she moved to Darmstadt, where the first location of the Bauhaus Archive was, and prepared her book about Joost Schmidt, which was posthumously published in 1984[13] Helene Nonné-Schmidt lived to be 84 years old.