ROSENVINGE Odin

PROMETHEUS

Watercolour and gouache on paper: 23.5 x 32 cm / 9.2 x 12.6 in
Signed lower right

Painter of seascapes; illustrator and designer of postcards and posters.

Odin Rosenvinge was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1880 and was of Danish descent. After graduating, he started working for a commercial art printing company in Leeds, where he began painting seascapes. At the age of thirty-two, he moved to Liverpool and joined the printing company Turner & Dunett firm, whose clients included all the major shipping companies. He served in the Middle East during World War I. In the 1930s his employers went bankrupt and Rosenvinge went freelancing. He became one of the most celebrated designers of posters and postcards in the world.

Provenance: Collection Tomas Otto, Lübeck, Germany.

Period:
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1880 - 1957
British School

Exhibitions:
London - Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Literature:
Robert Wall Robert, "Ocean Liner Postcards in Marine Art; 1900-1945", Woodbridge 1998.