Endre roder biography of mahatma
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He began to study art in Malta when he was in his teens after the war but the family moved to England in 1949 as his mother had remarried.
Things settled down again for a short time but world events in the shape of the Cold War and hence National Service intervened and so Endre was called up. It is a recurring theme in Röder’s work that evokes fun and movement.
In 1954 he trained as a cartographical draughtsman with the Ordnance Survey, and in 1955 studied architecture, abandoning this to become an art student and qualifying in 1960.
He taught art in secondary schools, polytechnics and colleges of further education before being appointed Education Services Curator with Sheffield City Art Galleries.
He treats them with respect and deep sensuality and often places them in imaginative settings. Life was peaceful for a few years, far away from the convulsions which afflicted central Europe. This was rudely interrupted by the Second World War during which Malta was heavily bombed and Endre's education disrupted. Between the age of two and fourteen, he lived on the Mediterranean island of Malta.
Since 1949 he has resided in England.
They sit a gentle distance from the onlooker, never quite meeting the eye.
In 1988 Endre became a full time painter, and he draws much inspiration from Balthus and Kirchner, as well as Victorian portrait photography. Since 1949 he has been resident in England and currently lives in Swanage.
Endre studied architecture and fine art before becoming a museum and art gallery curator.
Influences from his Hungarian origins and his early life in Malta are clearly visible in his work. Occasionally he uses the trick of chiaroscuro (light against dark) to illuminate an image, it’s use brought to perfection by Dutch artists of the Golden Age who also, occasionally like Röder, filled their paintings with symbolic meaning.
Looking at these paintings it becomes perfectly obvious that the artist is captivated by women, and they appear in almost of all his compositions.
He continued to paint while pursuing an academic career, his speciality developing from teaching art to art history in which he lectured up to post graduate level. Influencers abound – Chagall, Balthus, Picasso and Modigliani with his use of strongly defining lines, particularly around the face of his models. Other works, rich in tone, are more subtle.
His images draw upon his wide knowledge and fundamental understanding of art, a personal use of colour, a sense of decoration, and careful composition. He left this position in 1974 to lecture in art history at Bretton Hall (now home of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park) where he taught up to post-graduate level. His woman fascinate, as it appears that they can not quite be grasped.
His knowledge of several centuries of artists and their work is, of course, encyclopaedic. Always figurative, his work can be from observation or imagination and mostly of female figures in wondrous interior or landscape settings. In 1954 he trained as a cartographical draughtsman with the Ordnance Survey and in 1955 studied architecture, abandoning this to become an art student in Sheffield.
He taught art in secondary schools, polytechnics and colleges of further education before being appointed Education Services Curator with Sheffield City Art Galleries.
If asked about influences he laconically suggests, “Think Paris, early twentieth century.”
Commissions
Endre undertakes a limited number of commissions and if you go to the commissions section you can see him at work on one and the final result.