Hans Bendel

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Hans Bendel, illustration for Pestalozzi's novel “Lienhard and Gertrud”, first chapter

Hans Bendel (born October 18, 1814 in Schaffhausen ; † November 28, 1853 there ) was a Swiss painter and illustrator.

Hans Bendel, son of a master tailor, did an apprenticeship as a flat painter. He used his wandering years to visit the art metropolis of Munich , where he was employed as a craftsman to decorate the residence and tried to further educate himself as a painter. Wilhelm von Kaulbach took care of him and made it possible for him to train at the Munich Academy . He stayed in Rome with his teacher from October 1838 to May 1839 , where he practiced painting and studied antiquity.

Bendel worked successfully as a book illustrator and history painter . Kaulbach made him a collaborator in the illustration of works by Goethe and Schiller at the Cottaschen Klassikerverlag . In 1844 he created 13 pen drawings for Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi's folk novel "Lienhard und Gertrud", in 1849 10 pen drawings for Johann Peter Hebel's "Alemannic Poems" were published. A cozy genre painting dominates the popular illustrations .

Under the influence of his teacher Kaulbach, Bendel devoted himself to monumental history painting . Numerous individual drawings deal with scenes from history and legend, mainly from his Swiss homeland, and are intended as compositions ( cardboard boxes ) for wall frescoes , for which, however, no client could be found. His main work is a cycle of four depictions of Swiss history (“Oath on the Rütli”, “Mourning for Winkelried”, “Nikolaus von der Flüe in Stans”, “Schultheiss Wengli”), with which the merchant and entrepreneur Heinrich Moser created the east pavilion had his country residence Charlottenfels in Schaffhausen painted al fresco . The boxes were exhibited in the Münchner Kunstverein in 1852 . The cycle celebrates the preservation of the unity of the Swiss, who threaten internal disagreements and external dangers, through exemplary actions of individuals.

Bendel was preparing to return to Switzerland when, overworked and weakened, he succumbed to a serious illness before the age of 40.

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SURNAME Bendel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1853
Place of death Schaffhausen