WILLIAM HARRY AHRENDT

"WOMAN WITH FLOWER HAT"

OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED

AMERICAN, C.1955

20 X 16 INCHES

William Harry Ahrendt

Born 1933

William Ahrendt was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1933. He holds a Masters degree in Art History from Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art where he won the institute's coveted European Study Scholarship.

William resided in Europe for eleven years, living mostly in Germany where he attended the Munich Academy of Creative Art and studied painting techniques of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

In 1968, William returned to America with a new German born wife, Renate, and brought her to the family home in Arizona. He became the Art Department Chairperson at Glendale Community College from which he retired in 1979 to
concentrate on his fine art career.

William has been contributing editor for "Arizona Highways" magazine where his paintings and historical articles have
been published in over 40 issues. He was featured in "Southwest Art" magazine in June 1994 and "Art of the West" magazine in May 1999.