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The Artist

Eduard Odenthal (1929 – 2006) was a German native painter.

The son of a wandering trader, he did an apprenticeship as a locksmith. After the Second World War he worked as a boxer, carpet salesman and umbrella dealer. Started painting in 1965, after which he produced over 500 pictures in a few years. Paints landscapes of his homeland, figures from his surroundings and again and again street views and cityscapes in very vivid and very expressive colours, whereby he also manages to handle very large formats. Has created several picture cycles.

Exhibitions a.o.: 1969 Bonn; 1970 Cologne; 1971 Cologne, Duisburg, Göttingen; 1971 Munich, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Bratislava, Copenhagen, 1973; Oslo, Helsinki, 1974 Darmstadt, Munich, 1975 Zurich, 1976 Lübeck; 1980 Düsseldorf. ; 1981/82 Bielefeld, Hamburg; 2005 Dortmund.
Retrospective Gallery Kühn, Cologne 1999/2000

(from Erich Bedecked Gesellschaft für Naive Kunst e.V. Hannover)

The artwork

This is a Lithography from Eduard Odenthal

signed

166/200