Jacob Bendien
Selfportrait (1927)
Jacob Bendien (1890–1933), was a Dutch painter and graphic artist.
Biography[]
He was born in Amsterdam but moved to Paris in 1911 where he met and worked with the sculptor-painter John Rädecker and the painter . With them he later started making "Absolute schilderkunst", or "Absolute art", a form of abstract art that grew from their combined Amsterdam art show for the "De Onafhankelijken" (the Amsterdam "Independents" art club) in 1913.
Canal, Lithograph
According to the RKD he was the uncle of Eva Bendien, who later started the , a modern art gallery in Haarlem and Amsterdam.[1]
He died in Hilversum of tuberculosis.
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References[]
- ^ Jacob Bendien in the RKD
- Jacob Bendien on Artnet
- Jacob Bendien, 1890–1933 : een herinneringsboek, by Paul Citroen, 1940
- Richtingen in de hedendaagsche schilderkunst, by Jacob Bendien and Ans Harrenstein-Schräder, Brusse's uitgeversmaatschappij, 1935
Categories:
- 1890 births
- 1933 deaths
- Artists from Amsterdam
- Artists from Paris
- 20th-century Dutch painters
- Dutch male painters