Edmund Krengel was born in 1934 in Weiler, in Eifel, Germany. Since 1955 he has lived in Kloster Ebernach, a residential home and service establishment for the intellectually impaired in Cochern on the Mosel. Krengel has worked there since 1986 as an artist in the "Ausdruck" creativity workshop.

Edmund Krengel has already won the euward art award once, in 2000. His works have been shown, for examples in the Limburg art collections (1997), the Bonn Artists' forum (2001) and in the Junge Kunst gallery in Frankfurt/Oder (2005).

Krengel's pictures fascinate us with their subtle interplay of formal severity and constructive composition, with colour applied two-dimensionally, usually translucent. The geometrical principles of their construction convey order and clarity, while the luminous colour of the yellows and oranges radiates a strong depth. The large number of architectural motifs in his work follows a scheme that the artist has developed over years. The frontal view of the façades and their subdivision by the windows illuminated from within, with the sky horizontally supported and meagrely bounded, and dark foregrounds.

Edmund Krengel only uses beeswax crayons. He also makes use of the wax crayon box, employing its edges as a ruler. He makes corrections by scratching away the applied wax colour with his fingernail, and painting over the area in white. As he works, Krengel concentrates only on that one individual section that he is currently drawing. Those page areas that he does not need, he folds over the edge of the table and disregards. Starting from one corner, the artist builds up his picture, piece by piece, from small sections, that gradually come together to form a whole. Then, finally, the house façade connects up logically, and only by going right up close to the picture can you recognise the many different work sections from the directions of the strokes.