Hans Bendel

Hans Sigmund Bendel (18 October 1814 – 28 November 1853) was a Swiss painter.

Life

Illustration for Pestalozzi's "Lienhard und Gertrud".

Hans Bendel, of Schaffhausen, in Switzerland, was an historical painter and lithographer, and attended the Academy of Munich, under Kaulbach. He began a series of cartoons with scenes from Swiss history, but died in 1853 before they were completed. His other works include illustrations for Goethe, for Pestalozzi's Lienhard und Gertrud, for Hebel's Poems,^[1] and for Das Nüny Glöckly in Schaffhausen (the Nine o'clock Bell at Schaffhausen), a poem by Johann Heinrich Maurer-de Constant.^{[1] [2]}

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Sources

• This article was initially translated from the German Wikipedia.

This article incorporates text from the article "BENDEL, Hans Sigmund" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.