Elisabeth Endres (painter)

Elisabeth Endres (* 1942 in Oberammergau ; † July 3, 2011 there ) was a German painter .

Life

Elisabeth Endres was initially trained as a teacher for art and handicrafts in Augsburg, but then moved to the Munich Art Academy , where she finally graduated in 1973 as a master student of Karl Fred Dahmen . Endres lived alternately in Munich and North America, at times she worked as a supervisor in the Haus der Kunst in Munich . In the mid-2000s she returned to her home town of Oberammergau, where she died at the age of 68 after a short, serious illness.

Style and themes

After initially being shaped by Informel , Endres turned to representational and figurative painting at an early age. Her works are characterized by a high degree of continuity. In the foreground are often animal, woman or child figures, which are depicted realistically and colorfully, but whose shape is often broken by line cuts or alienated by geometric elements. In general, Endres' paintings and drawings are characterized by a high degree of representational accuracy and technical perfection, references to the imagery of American pop art are recognizable. In her works, Endres repeatedly deals with the threat to human existence from technology. For example, a series of images was created that dealt with the development of the atomic bomb in Los Alamos (New Mexico) . It is noteworthy that the figures almost exclusively depict women.

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Individual evidence

↑ different year of birth GND 1947

personal data
SURNAME	Endres, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oberammergau
DATE OF DEATH	July 3, 2011
Place of death	Oberammergau

[1] rent year of birth GND 1947