An aqueous electrophoretic coating material which can be deposited at the cathode, comprising component A of one or several synthetic resin vehicles with amino groups that can be made water-soluble or water-dispersible by protonization with acids, and component B of a crosslinking agent that on being baked reacts with component A, said component A being present in a concentration of 90 to 50% by weight based on the total synthetic resin vehicle and being one or more polycondensation, polymerization and polyaddition resins, said one or more resins having (i) an average molecular weight of 700 to 10,000, (ii) 1.2.times.10.sup.23 lateral of terminal double bonds per 1,000 g, corresponding to a hydrogenation iodine number of 5 to 90, and capable of undergoing Michael Addition, and (iii) tertiary amino groups corresponding to an amine number of 30 to 450 mg kov/g of resin, and component B is 10 to 50% by weight of one or more crosslinking agents which are the reaction products of a monoisocyanate or polyisocyanate with a malonic ester or malonic half ester, containing on the average at least two groups with reactive hydrogen based on methane tricarboxylic acid amide units of the formula ##STR4## per molecule.