Benedict Heinrich Bendix

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Benedict Heinrich Bendix , also Bendig , from 1825 Bendemann (* 1768 in Berlin ; † January 3, 1828 there ), was a German- Jewish draftsman and engraver in Berlin.

Life

Bookplate Isaac Euchel , engraved by Benedix

He was the son of the Berlin protection Jew Hirsch Nathan Bendig (1740–1798) and Frommeth Friedländer (1740–1814), sister of David Friedländer . He was a pupil of Gottfried Daniel Berger , perhaps also of the Berlin court painter Johann Christoph Frisch , because he was represented several times with copper engravings after Frisch at exhibitions of the Prussian Academy of the Arts .

In 1807, Bendix was initially a teacher at the drawing school of Moses Hirsch Bock , from 1822 to 1825, as successor to IB Aron, drawing teacher at the Jewish Free School in Berlin founded by his uncle David Friedländer in 1796 and finally from 1825 to 1828 at the Jewish community school, which opened in 1825 from which some later famous artists emerged.

His works include u. a. Sheets with medallions of Napoleon Bonaparte , the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. and the Russian Tsar Alexander I and their wives as well as portraits of well-known personalities such as Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1791) and Friedrich Gedike (1803).

But he also made portraits of well-known Jewish personalities such as the philosopher and enlightener Moses Mendelssohn (1797), that of the Berlin Chasan and community secretary Aaron Beer (1808), the philosopher Marcus Herz (1795), the naturalist Marcus Élieser Bloch (1794), des "Jewish major" Meno Burg (1815/20) and the mathematician Abraham Wolff (1797), friend of Moses Mendelssohn .

Bendix was friends with the Jewish enlightener Isaac Abraham Euchel , of whose tomb he made an engraving. He was a founding member (No. 6) of the Jewish aid organization Gesellschaft der Freunde , founded in Berlin in 1792 , was its extraordinary assessor in 1802 and resigned in December 1827 just a few days before his death. Due to severe mental depression, he committed suicide on January 3, 1828.

While his two brothers immediately adopted the name Bendemann after the Prussian Jewish edict of 1812 , he initially kept his name and did not take the name Bendemann until 1825 . His nephew was the painter Eduard Bendemann , son of his brother Aaron Hirsch Bendix (1775–1866), from 1812 Anton Heinrich Bendemann . The other brother was the banker Abraham Hirsch Bendix (1769-1857), who called himself August Heinrich Bendemann from 1812 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Kennecke: Isaac Abraham Euchel. Architect of the Haskala , 2007, page 173 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Tim N. Gidal : The Jews in Germany from Roman Times to the Weimar Republic , page 128, Verlag Bertelsmann Lexikon, 1988, ISBN 3570076903 ( excerpt )
  3. ↑ Series E - History and Development of Geodesy , Edition 25, Page 41, German Geodetic Commission, 1996 ( excerpt ).
  4. ↑ "Art has never been possessed by one person". Catalog for the exhibition of the Akademie der Künste and Hochschule der Künste, June 9 to September 15, 1996, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Verlag Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3894872551
  5. ↑ Ingrid Lohmann: Chevrat hinukh Nearim , 2000, page 1397 ( digitized )
  6. ↑ Ernst G. Lowenthal: Jews in Prussia , page 26, Image Archive Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Verlag Reimer, 1981, ISBN 3496010126 ( excerpt )
  7. ↑ Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. With more than 8000 biographies of well-known Jewish men and women of all times and countries , Volume 6, Page 453, Verlagdruckerei Orient, 1936 ( excerpt )
  8. ↑ Official Gazette of the Royal Churmärk Government in Potsdam , 1814, page 364, no. 151 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Bendix, Benedict Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bendemann, Benedict Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1828
Place of death Berlin