Eduard Bendemann

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann ( born December 3, 1811 in Berlin, † December 27, 1889 in Dusseldorf ) was a German painter and a major representative of the Düsseldorf School of Painting and medalist and university teachers

Life

Bendemann was the son of a Jewish banker Anton Heinrich Bendemann and his wife Fanny Eleanor, a daughter of the banker Joel Samuel von Halle. The parents had converted to Christianity before his birth; Bendemann himself was baptized and confirmed later. His family led a large bourgeois house and invite his parents learned Bendemann his later teacher at the University of Arts Berlin, Wilhelm von Schadow, know. With Julius Hübner, who married his sister Pauline, Bendemann 1827 went to the Art Academy in Dusseldorf.

In 1829 Schadow Bendemann accompanied on his study trips to and through Italy. 1831 returned Bendemann together with Schadow returned to Germany and settled in Dusseldorf as a freelance painter down. One of Bendemann most important works is the monumental image mourners Jews in exile, with which he could make his debut in 1832 on the Great Art Exhibition in Berlin with success. In his paintings Bendemann themed scenes from the Bible and met with his most elegiac representation of the fashion of his time.

Bendemann monumental painting " Jeremiah on the Ruins of Jerusalem " (1835 /36) was commissioned by the Prussian Crown Prince, later King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, and was shown in Berlin in 1836 in a solo exhibition. Through these successes, many works were reproduced Bendemann of graphic designers and engravers, such as the harvest from August oaks.

Bendemann undertook a further study trip to Italy and held between November 1829 and late April 1831 in Rome. Later a trip to France, where was staying Bendemann longer time in Paris followed.

In 1838 he was called Bendemann as lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. In 1859 he became the director of the Dusseldorf Art Academy; for health reasons put Bendemann 1867 this office down again. He settled in Berlin. In the house of his father- Bendemann created a monumental fresco with a symbolic representation, Arts at the fountain of poetry.

For the Royal Palace in Dresden Bendemann was commissioned three halls ( Throne Hall, Tower Hall, Tower Room ) embellish; he did this with a continuous wall paintings. In the throne room, on either side of the throne, are located in African -like closed wooden architecture the shapes of large rulers and legislators on a gold background with relevant representations in relief including, from Moses to Albrecht the Courageous, the tribe Lord of the reigning royal family. On the opposite wall the throne four representations are made of the life of King Henry I mounted underneath with images that represent the professional circles of the four estates. Yet ingenious in the composition, at least more cheerful by the stereochromische painting is the ballroom, which presents to us the whole life of the Greeks in poetic, charming way.

During his stay in Dusseldorf monumental frescoes emerged in the auditorium of the building built in 1856 Real -Gymnasium at the monastery road in Dusseldorf, which related to science, commerce, industry and art. Of lesser importance, the paintings in the Courtroom to Naumburg and according to his designs executed by his son Rudolf Bendemann and the brothers Ernst and Fritz Roeber and Wilhelm Beckmann murals in the first Cornelius Hall of the National Gallery are (Berlin), in which the powers of the mind and of the mind, which determine the creations of art, the behavior of man to deity and the Erdenwallen of genius are illustrated.

But also as a portraitist proved Bendemann a championship, which was highly appreciated by the public as of the official criticism. He sat next to his wife among other things, the bookseller Heinrich Brockhaus, the painter Wilhelm Campenhausen and Wilhelm von Schadow, the historian Johann Gustav Droysen, the musician Joseph Joachim and Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern model.

Bendemann was a member of the University of Arts Berlin, Dusseldorf Art Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel, the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and many more In addition, he has received several medals (including Pour le Mérite for Arts and Science ) awarded and honored.

He died a few days after his 78th birthday on December 27, 1889 in the house Jägerhofstraße 7 in Dusseldorf - PEMPELFORT, which had in 1866 received a growing studio in the back part and was replaced by a building of the architect Heinrich Joseph Kayser and Karl von Großheim. For 1885 and 1887 the house Jägerhofstraße 7 is occupied as a residence by Bendemann.

Family

Eduard Bendemann married on October 28, 1838 Lida Schadow ( 1821-1895 ), daughter of the famous sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow and sister of his artist father Wilhelm Schadow. With her he had the following children:

  • Gottfried Arnold ( born December 1, 1839 Dresden, † 1882) Major, Knight Pour le Mérite d ∞ Hedwig Kruger ( Their son is Frederick Bendemann. )
  • Marie ( born June 20, 1841 in Dresden, † January 16, 1874 ) ∞ Otto Euler, Judicial Council ( Their son is the painter Eduard Euler. )
  • Ernst Julius ( born January 1, 1844 Dresden) ∞ Alwine Jung
  • Fanny Mathilde Susanne ( born March 31, 1846, Dresden)
  • Felix Edward Robert Emil ( born August 8, 1848 in Dresden, † October 31, 1915, Berlin), Imperial Admiral, knighted in 1905, ∞ Helene Sophia fall, daughter of the Brazilian Consul General in Berlin Johann Jacob fall ( Their son Edward, also a painter, was married to Margarete Susman. )
  • Rudolf Christian Eugen (1851-1884), history painter

Works (selection)

  • Boaz and Ruth
  • Prisoners Jews in Babylon, also known as the mourning Jews in exile (1832 )
  • Two girls at the Well (1832 )
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1833 ), see picture on the right
  • Jeremiah on the ruins of Jerusalem (1835 /36)
  • The arts at the fountain of poetry (fresco )
  • The harvest
  • Deportation of the Jews into Babylonian captivity (1872 )
  • Nathan the Wise
  • Penelope (1877 )
  • Henry I beats Hungarians (1878 )
  • Exhibition of works by Eduard Bendemann at the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf to: January 18 to February 18, 1891, Dusseldorf ( digitized )

Illustrations (selection)

Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf:

  • In: Alphabet for children big and small / drawn by Dresdner artists. With stories and songs by R. Reinic and Sing ways of Ferdinand Hiller. Wigand, Leipzig 1845. Digitized edition
  • In: German album art and poetry. With woodcuts after original drawings of the artist, executed by R. Brend'amour. Edited by Friedrich Bodenstedtstraße. Grote, Berlin, 1867. Digitized edition
  • The frieze in the throne room of the Royal Palace in Dresden. Al fresco painted by Eduard Bendemann. Radirt per cent Bürkner. Wigand, Leipzig 1847. Digitized edition
  • In: Reinic, Robert. Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. 1836-1852. Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. - Dusseldorf: Schulgen - Bettendorff, 1838, colored wallets output. digitized edition
  • Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. - Dusseldorf: Schulgen - Bettendorff, 1838 Digitized edition.
  • Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. Buddeus, Dusseldorf betw 1839 and 1846. Digitized edition
  • Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. Vogel, Leipzig about 1852. Digitized edition
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