Elisabeth Endres (1942-2011) - Up to the pain barrier

The exhibition "Elisabeth Endres (1942-2011) - To the Painful Limit" at the Oberammergau Museum (Oberammergau Museum) presents the first comprehensive retrospective of the painter with over fifty works from lenders and from the museum's own collection. In addition to the large-scale paintings, the focus is on her drawings, which have never been accessible to the public to this extent before. Due to her personal background, the artist always identified with the weak and disadvantaged. In her paintings, she has given them a voice since the 1970s, be it indigenous peoples, women all over the world, endangered nature or extinct animal species.

The Oberammergau painter Elisabeth Endres graduated from the Munich Art Academy in 1973 as a master student of Prof. Karl Fred Dahmen. As a freelance painter in Munich and for a time in the USA, she developed her very own style. The representational with its clear formal language and stylised aesthetics has characterised all her artistic phases since then. Her paintings and drawings impress with their representational precision and technical perfection, and references to the imagery of American Pop Art are recognisable. For Endres, her artistic work was also the medium for her lifelong struggle against the exploitation and oppression of women, indigenous peoples and nature. Her paintings are ciphers for the alienation of people and the brokenness of the modern world. In 2004, the artist returned to her birthplace and home town of Oberammergau, where she died in 2011.

Last edited on 15.05.2025