Oda Walendy

Oda Walendy (born July 11, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German silk painter.

Life

Oda Walendy's father Bruno Walendy came from Masuria and was a businessman in Duisburg. The mother Paula Walendy geb. Brandts is a descendant of Franz Brandts . Oda studied painting with Jo Strahn in Niederkassel (Düsseldorf) and graduated in design from the State Engineering School for Textiles in Krefeld (from which the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences emerged ). Since 1977 she has been a freelance silk painter in Mönchengladbach . Numerous public and private art exhibitions in the United States and Switzerland, Austria, Namibia, South Africa and England showed her works. In 1982 they were hanged by Helmut Schmidt at the Federal Chancellor Festival. They were also shown at the Olympic Congress in Baden-Baden , at Harrods , in the Helmhaus and on Mainau . Walendy taught drawing and painting at adult education centers and at the Abteiberg Museum . Until 2006 she ran her own shop in the Kö-Galerie . Many newspapers, radio and television shows ( What am I? ) Reported on her painting. Walendy has been painting UNICEF greeting cards since 1990 . Most recently she exhibited in Mönchengladbach, Krefeld and Potsdam. In 2014 she was one of the founders of the (stillborn) association for the East Prussian image archive .

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Painting on silk. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-7927-0535-4 .
Ways of joy. Painting on silk. SKV-Edition, Lahr 1992, ISBN 3-87729-365-4 .
Silk painting. Inspirations from an artist. Callwey, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7667-1314-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Walendy, Oda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German designer and silk painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 11, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin