Klaus Bendixen

Klaus Bendixen (born December 14, 1924 in Hanover ; † September 30, 2003 in Heilbronn ) was a German painter and art college professor .

Life

Bendixen, who had his mother's surname, first completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason on the Eastern Front from 1942 to 1945 after his war service . He then studied from 1947 to 1949 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg with Fritz Griebel . He continued his studies from 1949 to 1953 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. There he was a master student with Willi Baumeister . In 1955 he became a member of the German Association of Artists. In 1956 he married Hal Busse, who was also trained as a master builder in Stuttgart . Together they belonged to the national and international avant-garde at that time .

In 1961 he followed the call to the Lerchenfeld University of Fine Arts in Hamburg, where he was full professor of painting until 1989. Bendixen often worked in his Italian studio in Liguria , which he had moved into in 1980. Today his daughter Katarina, who was born in 1959 and has been a painter since her art studies in Hamburg, works in this studio. While her mother lives in Heilbronn, the small community of Diano Marina in Liguria is the center of her life.

Klaus Bendixen died on September 30th in Heilbronn.

About Bendixen's painting

“Pictures [...] that have no object in the sense of a visible reality. [...] With a word that is not quite sufficient, one can describe [it] as a representation of a process. The theme is the representations of what can generally be called a process. "

- Helmut Heißenbüttel : exhibition catalog, 2011

“So on the one hand we are dealing with independent structures of color and shape that only open up to the visual deepening and then again we come across images in the images that already read out everyday perception. Then we notice parts of the area that are treated very painterly. We see differentiated colors, complex structures, amorphous boundaries. And therein the traces of the creation process that remained visible, which initially help penetrate the image content. But then, suddenly, as in an assembly, surface parts of a smooth application of paint! One senses that these deliberately brought together opposites correspond to different levels of relation to reality. "

- Fritz Seitz : exhibition catalog, 2011

Awards

1953/54 and 1954/55: Art Prize of the Youth of the Association of Visual Artists Württemberg e. V.
1961: Scholarship from Villa Massimo , Rome

Individual evidence

↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society. With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Klaus Bendixen, p. 34 .
↑ ^a ^b Fritz Seitz: On the pictures by Klaus Bendixen . In: Künstlerhaus Heilbronn eV in the cigar art and culture workshop (ed.): Three generations - four artists. Hermann Busse, Hal Busse, Klaus Bendixen, Katarina Bendixen . Heilbronn September 2011, p. 39 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Klaus Bendixen . In: Künstlerhaus Heilbronn eV in the cigar art and culture workshop (ed.): Three generations - four artists. Hermann Busse, Hal Busse, Klaus Bendixen, Katarina Bendixen . Heilbronn September 2011, p. 40 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Bendixen, Klaus. 1924–2003, painter, husband of Hal Busse. In: gnm.de/The faces of the German art archive. German Art Archive in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, accessed on June 4, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Claudia Ihlefeld: At home in the region and in the world. In: Stimme.de. September 22, 2011, accessed June 4, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b (HA): painter Klaus Bendixen dead. In: abendblatt.de. October 8, 2003, accessed June 4, 2018 .
↑ Helmut Heißenbüttel: On the question of what a picture can be. On the painting by Klaus Bendixen . In: Künstlerhaus Heilbronn eV in the cigar art and culture workshop (ed.): Three generations - four artists. Hermann Busse, Hal Busse, Klaus Bendixen, Katarina Bendixen . Heilbronn September 2011, p. 27 f .

Web links

Klaus Bendixen on artnet
Klaus Bendixen at artfacts.net

personal data
SURNAME	Bendixen, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and art college professor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 14, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	September 30, 2003
Place of death	Heilbronn

[1] Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society. With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Klaus Bendixen, p. 34 .

[Seitz-2] Fritz Seitz: On the pictures by Klaus Bendixen . In: Künstlerhaus Heilbronn eV in the cigar art and culture workshop (ed.): Three generations - four artists. Hermann Busse, Hal Busse, Klaus Bendixen, Katarina Bendixen . Heilbronn September 2011, p. 39 .

[Bio-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Klaus Bendixen . In: Künstlerhaus Heilbronn eV in the cigar art and culture workshop (ed.): Three generations - four artists. Hermann Busse, Hal Busse, Klaus Bendixen, Katarina Bendixen . Heilbronn September 2011, p. 40 .

[dka-4] Bendixen, Klaus. 1924–2003, painter, husband of Hal Busse. In: gnm.de/The faces of the German art archive. German Art Archive in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, accessed on June 4, 2018 .

[stimme-5] Claudia Ihlefeld: At home in the region and in the world. In: Stimme.de. September 22, 2011, accessed June 4, 2018 .

[HA-6] (HA): painter Klaus Bendixen dead. In: abendblatt.de. October 8, 2003, accessed June 4, 2018 .

[7] Helmut Heißenbüttel: On the question of what a picture can be. On the painting by Klaus Bendixen . In: Künstlerhaus Heilbronn eV in the cigar art and culture workshop (ed.): Three generations - four artists. Hermann Busse, Hal Busse, Klaus Bendixen, Katarina Bendixen . Heilbronn September 2011, p. 27 f .