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Endre Roder was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1933.

 

He grew up in Malta and received a classical education in a Maltese seminary. This Catholic education encompassing the cult of the Virgin Mary had a profound effect on the young man and his great affection and respect for women, the inspiration of his art, remains to this day.

 

He was the senior lecturer of Art History at Sheffield University for a decade, these years as an academic did not prevent Roder from painting, he had many exhibitions and was a successful portrait artist.

 

At his studio overlooking the bay in Swanage, Roder works with life models, often ballet dancers and girls from the local school, the latter chaperoned by their mothers . The young models provide the inspiration for his painting, as he says the finished work rarely shows a true likeness of the model but rather what he chooses to see.

 

Roder paints with a spare dry brush using subtle carefully graduated matt tones, there is a delicate refinement to his work reminiscent of the intimate painting of the post- impressionists Bonnard and Vuillard.

 

The Scotsman 11 June 1993 Press Release:

 

The work of Endre Roder at the 41 Gallery is the other show that I would particularly recommend and was something of a revelation to me. Hungarian born and now based in Sheffield he brings to his affectionate art an excellent sense of design, sophisticated colour sense and enormous charm. Roder is a great lover of women and the exhibition celebrates this love in some exquisite portraiture of his models, some in the nude, as well as in his canvases of more imaginative and symbolist style. It is however the portraits I prefer, with their low key colour, their patterned backdrops, their well thought out composition and their unerring sense of character executed in a fashion that extracts the maximum from a certain formalism without this being too self- conscious. only until 15 June-so catch it quickly.

Richard Jaques

 

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