Alfred Eden-Bant

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Alfred Eden-Bant (born March 22, 1898 in Bant ; † March 24, 1974 in Wilhelmshaven ; actually Alfred Eden ) was a North German draftsman , etcher and painter (including stage painter ).

Life

After leaving school, he learned the blacksmith's trade and did not turn to painting until 1923. From the mid-1920s he earned his living as a stage painter in the theater and at the Niederdeutsche Bühne in Wilhelmshaven. During this time he first took part in an exhibition in the Wilhelmshavener Kunsthalle . Further solo exhibitions followed in Oldenburg and Bremen . After the Second World War, he worked as an art teacher at various schools in Wilhelmshaven , before taking up a position as an employee in the Wilhelmshaven Waterways and Shipping Office .

Alfred Eden-Bant died in 1974 two days after his 76th birthday.

Since 1948 he was a member of the Association of Visual Artists Northwest Germany.

Exhibitions

  • 1974: Memorial exhibition, Wilhelmshaven, Kunsthalle
  • 2000: Memorial exhibition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of death, Wilhelmshaven, Coastal Museum

plant

Alfred Eden-Bant was self-taught and preferred to depict social issues in his early work. Later he preferred to devote himself to painting at home . In oil paintings, watercolors and etchings he placed the marshland , the sluice ports and the historical sites of the Wilhelmshaven area in the foreground of his artistic activity.

  • 1934: Plowing Farmer (oil on cardboard, 6 × 80 cm), Wilhelmshaven, municipal painting collection
  • around 1935: Rider on the beach (oil on canvas, 60 × 80 cm), Wilhelmshaven, municipal painting collection
  • 1944: Landscape (oil on cardboard, 49.3 × 69.9 cm), Wilhelmshaven, Städtische Gemäldesammlung
  • Untitled. Neuender Church (etching, 16 × 13.5 cm), Wilhelmshaven, municipal painting collection

literature

  • Alfred Eden-Bant . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 32, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22772-8 , p. 152.
  • Gerhard Wietek : 200 years of painting in the Oldenburger Land , Oldenburg 1986
  • Association of Friends of Art for Wilhelmshaven: Kunst an der Jade (1912–1987) - 75 years of Association of Friends of Art for Wilhelmshaven , Wilhelmshaven 1987

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theater am Meer - Niederdeutsche Bühne Wilhelmshaven, archive
  2. ↑ Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Brune-Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1986–1987, Volume 1, p. 228
personal data
SURNAME Eden-Bant, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eden, Alfred (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, etcher and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Bant
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1974
Place of death Wilhelmshaven