Arthur Bendrat

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Sankt Marien in Danzig with the Jopengasse (1906)

Arthur Bendrat (born April 22, 1872 in Danzig , † March 2, 1914 in Coswig ) was a German impressionist painter, draftsman and lithographer . He also illustrated several books.

life and work

Bendrat, son of a ship's captain and grandson of the pastor and local writer Walther Domansky (1860–1936), completed an apprenticeship in the decorating studio of the Danzig City Theater with Moritz Wimmer (1800–1900). He was supposed to study theology first, but instead completed an apprenticeship at the arts and crafts school in Gdansk with Bernhard Sturmhoefel (1853-1913) from the beginning of the 1890s. From 1895 to 1902, he studied at the Dresden Art Academy . He was a student of Friedrich Preller the Elder. J. and from 1898 master student of Gotthardt Kuehl . During a study trip to Danzig in the wake of Kuehl, he met Berthold Hellingrath , with whom a lifelong friendship developed and who, following his advice, also went to Dresden. In the course of the award of the Great Saxon State Prize of the Academy, he was awarded a small gold medal in 1899. He belonged to the Dresden artist group Die Elbier and from around 1901 regularly participated in exhibitions, including in Dresden , Berlin , Munich and Düsseldorf . As early as 1900 he was represented at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition with the works Roofs of Danzig in the evening sun , smelting works and early fog on the Elbe .

Bendrat mainly dealt with landscape motifs or with cityscapes, preferably of his hometown Gdansk, held "in a colorful style that is somewhere between realism and impressionism, occasionally including atmospheric mood values ." At Thieme / Becker , his Gdansk cityscapes are characterized as follows: and Seewind play for the architectural witnesses of a great cultural past, how church and bourgeois architecture combine to create an infinitely attractive, colorful and linear harmony, which he has, tirelessly in finding strange points of view, repeatedly shaped into a picture. "

Draft for the fresco in the Saxon State House (1906)

His drawing of the Marienburg was bought by the Prussian state; a painting showing the port canal in Neufahrwasser belonged to the municipal collection in Danzig. For the Bielsche Stift on Obernitz  a. S. he created four frescoes . Bendrat's address at that time is noted on the back of a design for his mural in the Saxon State House from 1906, which showed Meissen and the Albrechtsburg castle: He lived at Ostbahnstrasse 3 on the third floor.

Postcards were also printed after Arthur Bendrat's views of the city . So he won u. a. with a view of Scharfenberg Castle at one of the Kgl. Saxon. The Ministry of the Interior initiated a competition for an award-winning series of postcards with pictures from Saxony, which was published by Meissner & Buch in Leipzig.

In 1906 four fairy tales by Charlotte Muensterberg with book decorations by Arthur Bendrat were published by AW Kafemann. In 1908 the children's book Danziger Bilder by Käthe Schirmacher was published with illustrations by Bendrat.

From 1911, according to Hans Vollmer , Bendrat was mentally disturbed and no longer active as an artist. He died in the spring of 1914 in the "Sanatorium for Mentally Ill and Nervous" Lindenhof in Neucoswig .

An anonymous Gdansk view

Cover picture by an anonymous artist for Die Totenstadt (1901)

In 1901 a booklet novel by Robert Kraft with the title Die Totenstadt was published in Dresden . The artist, who designed the cover picture and wrote a letter in reverse, remained anonymous. Amazingly, however, he chose a street scene with the Danzig Marienkirche as a motif, although the scene of the action was Leipzig .

Works

Painter / lithographer

  • Views from West Prussia (including Danzig, Thorn, Marienwerder), portfolio with lithographs, printed by BG Teubner , Leipzig (series of Teubner art prints)

illustrator

  • Walther Domansky : From Danzig's Prehistory - three stories for young and old . Bertling, Danzig 1891 (drawings by Bendrat).
  • Charlotte Münsterberg: Four fairy tales . AW Kafemann, Danzig 1906 (book decorations by Bendrat).
  • From the German East - 5 artist stone drawings . BG Teubner, Leipzig & Berlin 1908 (preface by Käthe Schirmacher).
  • Käthe Schirmacher : Danzig Pictures . BG Teubner, Leipzig & Berlin 1908 (drawings by Bendrat).
  • Paul Behrend: Folk tales - collected in West Prussia and reproduced according to the popular tongue . AW Kafemann, Danzig 1908 (book decorations by Bendrat).

literature

Web links

Commons : Arthur Bendrat  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Competitions. In: Art Chronicle. New series, Volume 11, 1899/1900, Issue 8 (December 14, 1899), p. 119 ( digitized version of Heidelberg University ).
  2. ^ Arthur Bendrat, Dresden. In: Große Berliner Kunstausstellung (Hrsg.) Catalog 1900, p. 5 ( digitized digishelf.de )
    Further participations were around 1901 with the works Augustusbrücke , Saalelandschaft and Schwarzathal ( digitized ), 1907 (five works, address: Bendrat, Arthur, Dresden -Altstadt, Ostbahnstrasse 3, III) and in 1911 with the works of Kronberg Castle in Helsingoer and a view of Danzig .
  3. ↑ General Artist Lexicon (AKL), see literature
  4. ↑ Thieme-Becker, see literature
  5. ↑ Quoted from von-zezschwitz.de ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ available on buchfreund.de ( Memento of 3 February 2016 Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Bendrat, Arthur . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 289 .
  8. ↑ Staff messages (obituary). In: Art for All . 29th year, issue 23, September 1, 1914, p. 552 ( digitized version of Heidelberg University ).
  9. ^ The city of the dead on wikisource
personal data
SURNAME Bendrat, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman, lithographer and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1914
Place of death Coswig (Saxony)