Ewald Bender

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Ewald Bender (born November 28, 1883 in Trarbach an der Mosel ; died after 1947 ) was a German art historian who dealt in particular with Ferdinand Hodler .

Act

Ewald Bender was the son of the businessman Wilhelm Bender and his wife Maria, b. Ramish. From 1894 to 1903 he attended high school in Trarbach. He then worked as a businessman for two and a half years, from the winter semester 1905/06 he studied art history in Munich , from the summer semester 1907 to Easter 1910 in Berlin . On December 21, 1910 he was with Max Semrau at the University of Greifswald with his dissertation on colored composition. A PhD contribution to the knowledge and history of coloring . From 1912 to 1914 he worked on the editorial team of the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present in Leipzig . The writer Jacob Picard dedicated the poem Hymne to him and Hans Heinrich Ehrler in the volume of poems Das Ufer in 1913 , which is subtitled “My friends Ewald Bender and Hans Heinrich Ehrler”.

He wrote several writings about the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler , for example about his painting of the “Exodus of German Students into the War of Liberation in 1813” at the University of Jena . In 1922 he first wrote a treatise on life and from 1923 on, together with Werner Y. Müller, a two-part monograph on this painter and his oeuvre. Until at least 1942 he wrote articles for the magazine Die Kunst für alle , for example about the sculptors Richard Engelmann , Georg Kolbe , Johann Heinrich Dannecker or about exhibitions by artists from the Berlin Secession . By no later than 1937, he was in Cologne, where he for the magazine for construction united Central Journal of Engineering Administration wrote and in Cologne-Lindenthal lived. Among other things, he reported on the planned redesign of the House of German Crafts in Frankfurt am Main by Clemens Klotz . Until 1947 he also worked as an expert with Otto Förster and prepared reports on the authenticity of works of art, for example a copy of the oil painting “ Villa am Meer ”, which both of them classified as the authentic work of Arnold Böcklin .

Publications (selection)

  • About colored composition. A contribution to the knowledge and history of coloring . A. Arendt, Eberswalde 1911, OCLC 312158045 (dissertation at the University of Greifswald, with curriculum vitae).
  • German art and decoration Illustrated monthly books for modern painting, sculpture, architecture, home art and artistic work for women . tape 29 (October 1911 - March 1912), 1912, article: The Black and White Exhibition of the Berlin Secession and The Sculpture at the Winter Exhibition of the Berlin Secession , p. 357-369 and pp. 384-387 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  • The life of Ferdinand Hodler . With 35 colored pictures on 16 panels and three contributions by Hermann Bahr , Robert Breuer and Philipp Modrow. Rascher, Zurich 1922, OCLC 312778655 .
  • The art of Ferdinand Hodler (=  Art of Ferdinand Hodler. Complete presentation in 2 volumes . Volume 1 : The early work up to 1895 ). Rascher, Zurich 1923, OCLC 258292218 .
  • Riccardo Gualino: A busy life. A self-portrait . Rascher, Zurich / Leipzig / Stuttgart 1932, DNB  573595534 (Italian: Frammenti di vita . Milan 1931. Translated by Ewald Bender).
  • The Ordensburgen Vogelsang and Crössinsee . In: Art for everyone: painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture . 52nd volume (1936–1937), issue 7. F. Bruckmann, Munich April 1937, OCLC 864017545 , p. 164-169 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).

literature

  • Lutz Hagestedt: Bender, Ewald . In: German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century . tape 2 : Bauer-Ose – Björnson . De Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-11-188034-6 , Sp. 224-225 ( books.google.de ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jacob Picard: The shore . Heidelberg 1913, p. 9; Stefan Keppler-Tasaki: Hans Heinrich Ehrler (1872–1951). Biography of a Westerner . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-50524-0 , p. 193 , note 230 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ^ Ewald Bender: Hodler's Jena university picture . In: The art warden. A panorama of all areas of the beautiful. Monthly booklets for art, literature and life . Issue 18, June 2, 1909, OCLC 78771532 , p. 326–329 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  3. ↑ Ewald Bender: The sculptor Richard Engelmann . In: Art for everyone . No. 27 , 1913, OCLC 888300430 , p. 158-164 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  4. ↑ Ewald Bender: German art and decoration . Ed .: Alexander Koch. tape 31 . Adolf Koch Nachf., Darmstadt 1913, p. 378 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ Ewald Bender: Johann Heinrich Dannecker. On the 100th anniversary of his death on December 8, 1841 . In: Art for everyone . No. 85 , 1942, OCLC 888300404 , pp. 49-55 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  6. ^ Ewald Bender: The House of German Crafts in Frankfurt a. Main. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Vol. 57, No. 21, May 26, 1937, pp. 515-518.
  7. ↑ Düsseldorfer Autkonshaus, catalog 01/2011, no. 6 (here only as "radius").
personal data
SURNAME Bender, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Traben-Trarbach
DATE OF DEATH after 1947