Endre RODER (b.1933)

Portrait of a Lady with a Cat

Oil on Board

Signed

Endre Roder was born in Budapest in 1933 and between the ages of 2 and 14 lived on the Mediterranean island of Malta. Since 1949 he has been resident in England. After secondary education in Portsmouth he completed his National Service in the army, serving in Egypt and Cyprus, He then trained as a cartographic draughtsman with the Ordnance Survey, and studied architecture at Portsmouth School of Art for two years.

By 1954 he had moved to Sheffield and continued his art education at the College of Art under William Taylor. He then taught art in Sheffield and London schools for several years before being appointed Art Education Officer at mapping Art Gallery, Sheffield. He left this position in 1975 to become Tutor in Art History at Bretton Hall College.

Since 1988 Endre has worked as a full-time painter. His paintings are clearly influenced by his unusual background. They draw upon his wide knowledge of the history of art and depend on his very personal use of colour, sense of decoration and careful composition. His works are always figurative and are usually of female figures either in interiors or in the landscape.

Reference: Buckmans "Artists in Britain since 1945"

42 ½" x 31" / 108 cm x 79 cm

Ref. no. MB MG 575