Eduard Bargheer began as a freelance visual artist in the early twenties.

The extensive oeuvre he left behind was created between 1924 and 1979 in six decades of the 20th century, which were marked by the Weimar Republic, the Hitler dictatorship and the restart and reconstruction after the Second World War.

Before 1939, Bargheer's center of life, apart from extensive travels, especially to Italy and France, was northern Germany, which is reflected in his motifs (landscapes, portraits). The oppressive nature of political reality is expressed in a darkening of the palette and in metaphors. Bargheer spent the war and the early post-war period entirely in Italy. It was not until 1954 that he again commuted between his domicile on the island of Ischia and his home in Hamburg-Blankenese. Thus, after the war, his work was dominated by the Mediterranean world. In the sixties, he discovered Africa for himself, which fascinated him artistically.

Bargheer expressed himself in all the classical artistic techniques: the hand drawing, watercolor, oil painting and printmaking. There were also several monumental works in public spaces (mosaics, murals). There are also some illustrations (Collodi's "Pinocchio", Camus "The Guest", Sophocles "Antigone").