Marcel van Eeden (* 1965 in The Hague) is a passionate drawer. After his study of painting he turns to the medium of drawing and creates at least one drawing each day. Since 2001 he presents his drawings to a wider public in the internet by including each day one drawing in his internet diary ‘tekenlog’. Herewith, he creates a wide-spread encyclopaedia of images which try to explore his own life before his birth. All his samples are dated before 1965 - his own year of birth.

In the years 2004/ 2005 he starts to combine some of his drawings in large drawing series. The first of these series is “K.M. Wiegand. LIfe and Work” consisting of 150 drawings. In the following years three more large series are executed by van Eeden - Celia, 2004-2006; Der Archaologe. Die Reisen des Oswald Sollmann, 2007; Der Tod des Matheus Boryna, 2007 -, in which he introduces three more protagonists: Celia Coplestone, Oswald Sollmann and Matheus Boryna.*

In his last series “The Zurich Trial, Part 1. Witness for the prosecution” he starts a new dimension in his oeuvre by putting his four protagonist into relation.  Thereby, he continues his stories respectively offers solutions for events that have not been explained yet. Recently he started with his new series “Cornelia Maersk” for the harbor in Rotterdam. Each day he will publish one new drawing of this series on www.marcelvaneeden.nl

Marcel van Eeden | The Zurich Trial, Part 1. Witness for the Prosecution | 2009 Nero pen on laid paper | 19 x 28 cm (Series consisting of 150 drawings ) | Courtesy of Galerie Zink München/ Berlin