Jacob Bendien
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Jacob Bendien (1890–1933), was a Dutch painter and graphic artist.
Biography
[edit]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 Jan van Deene. 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.
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According to the RKD he was the uncle of Eva Bendien, who later started the Galerie Espace, a modern art gallery in Haarlem and Amsterdam.[1]
He died in Hilversum of tuberculosis.
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References
[edit]- ^ 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