Eduard Deventer

Eduard Deventer, born on July 12, 1864 in Hamm and died in Berlin in 1928, was a painter.

Eduard Deventer spent his childhood in his parents’ house at Kentroper Weg 40 in Hamm. He was the eldest of five children of Bernhard and Johanna Deventer-Isselhorst. His father worked as a draughtsman, a common profession in Hamm at the time.

In 1925, Eduard Deventer was living in Zehlendorf near Berlin. He began his artistic career as a craftsman and later became a student at the arts and crafts schools in Düsseldorf and Munich. After studying at the Academy of Art in Berlin, he undertook numerous art journeys. Most of his works, including landscapes from Italy and Germany, portraits of emperors and other portraits, are in private ownership. He painted and presented paintings, watercolors and drawings in the Gustav Lübcke Museum, among others.