Franz Bender (painter)

Franz Bender (born March 23, 1873 in Germersheim , † April 12, 1905 in Leipzig ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Origin and education

Franz Bender was the son of the Bavarian Oberpostexpediteurs Franz called Johann Bender (1832-1886). Artistically gifted from his youth, he was sent to a lithographer as an apprentice due to the untimely death of his parents . When he died after a year, his guardian allowed a visit to the Karlsruhe Art Academy , where he trained as a pattern draftsman.

Creating art

After completing his training, Bender worked as a commercial artist in Mannheim and Cologne . Due to a job at Grimme & Hempel, he moved to Leipzig in the 1890s, where he lived in a shared apartment with friends from Karlsruhe. He founded a studio for artistic wallpaper designs and devoted himself to painting, printmaking and designs for book decorations, above all to art glazing . Here he worked with the companies R. Brand & Co. as well as Schulze and Stokinger. In addition to works for private houses in Leipzig, Hanover and Dresden , his main works were the colorful glass windows in the ballroom and in the stairwell of the Künstlerhaus on Nikischplatz in Leipzig. The Künstlerhaus was completely destroyed by the air raids on Leipzig on December 4, 1943, together with Bender's glass windows.

From childhood sickly, died Bender at the age of 32 years in Deaconess Hospital Leipzig at a cancer . He was buried in Heidelberg .

Works

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  Neuss in the evening, oil painting

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  The New Town Hall in Leipzig

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  watercolor

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  Künstlerhaus - courtyard view with stair windows

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  Künstlerhaus - staircase window inside

literature

• Bender, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . Tape. EA Seemann, Leipzig.
• Monika Spiller: Bender, Franz . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 , p. 621.
• Julius R. Haarhaus : Leipzig walks. Pictures and sketches. With 12 vignettes by Franz Bender and 1 collotype picture by Wilhelm Stumpf, from Schalscha-Ehrenfeld, Leipzig 1903.
• Hugo Rudolf: Franz Bender . In: Leipzig calendar. Illustrated yearbook and chronicle . Edited by Georg Merseburger, 4th year, Leipzig 1907, p. 221f.

Web links

Commons : Franz Bender  - Collection of images, videos and audio files