Jacob Bendien

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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 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.

Canal, Lithograph

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

↑ 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

Persondata
Name	Bendien, Jacob
Alternative names	Toppie Bendien
Short description	Dutch painter
Date of birth	1890
Place of birth	Amsterdam
Date of death	1933
Place of death	Hilversum

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