Leopold Bendix

Leopold Bendix (born September 16, 1818 in Berlin ; † March 16, 1883 ibid) was a German history , genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

The garnishment , 1847

Leopold Bendix, son of the clothes dealer Bendix Joseph Elkisch (1775 or 1777–1864) and his wife Hendel, née Burg (1786–1865), came from a Jewish merchant family in Berlin that did not adopt the name Bendix as a family name until 1842/1843. In 1834 he became a student in Wilhelm Herbig's studio in Berlin. From 1835 to 1839 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Theodor Hildebrandt . In the years 1841/1842 he stayed in Paris , where he was a student in Paul Delaroche's studio . From 1871 he was a member of the Association of Berlin Artists . He was married but probably childless. His grave is preserved in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee next to that of his wife Caroline, née Wernicke.

activity

Bendix initially created compositions on biblical and historical events, but changed about 1840 increasingly the " narrative painting " within the Düsseldorf School of Painting by operating outside the mainstream group to which about Carl Hübner , Rudolf Jordan or Henry Ritter was included, represented . Socio-critical issues, such as in the painting “Die Auspfändung” from 1847, were stimulated by corresponding tendencies in works by the Düsseldorf painters Peter Schwingen and Johann Peter Hasenclever . In the Berlin criticism, they were accordingly devalued as " tendency painting ". Since the 1840s numerous portraits have also been created. Between 1834 and 1870 he took part regularly in the Berlin Academy exhibition and was often represented in exhibitions at the art associations in Düsseldorf ( art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia ), Königsberg and Breslau, and in 1869 also in the Munich international annual exhibition.

Works

• Self-portrait , 1834 Berlin Academic Art Exhibition
• Girl winding a wreath , 1837 Berlin Academic Art Exhibition
• The Prophet Elias in the Wilderness , 1838; 1838 Berlin Academic Art Exhibition; 1839 Kunstverein exhibition in Königsberg i.Pr.
• Erminia on the battlements , 1839; 1839 Berlin Academic Art Exhibition
• The farewell of Maria Stuart on her way to the scaffolding of the steward Melvil , 1840 Berlin Academic Art Exhibition
• A bathing girl , 1840 Berlin Academic Art Exhibition
• Female portrait / Male portrait 1840 Berlin Academic Art Exhibition
• Scene in a mail car , 1842 Berlin Academic Art Exhibition
• Nice meeting , 1842 Berlin Academic Art Exhibition
• Italian from the island of Ischia , 1842 Berlin Academic Art Exhibition
• Portrait of Guillaume Lévesques , 1842, oil / canvas, 10 × 11.2 cm, Ottawa, Library and Archives Acc. No. 1989-289-1
• Morning pleasure of an old bachelor , 1843 Kunstverein exhibition in Königsberg i.Pr .; 1844 Berlin Academic Art Exhibition
• Traveling Actor Society , 1844 Berlin Academic Art Exhibition; 1845 Kunstverein exhibition in Königsberg i.Pr.
• Maria Stuart and Rizzio playing music , 1844 Berlin Academic Art Exhibition
• Girls in the Forest , 1845 Berlin Academic Art Exhibition
• Albert and Julie Rathenau , 1845, Berlin, Jewish Museum, Inv.-No .: GEM 81/10/0.
• Jenny and Gustav Rathenau , around 1845, Berlin, Jewish Museum; Inv.-No .: GEM 81/11/0.
• The sloppy at his wife's sickbed , 1846 Berlin Academic Art Exhibition; 1857 Kunstverein exhibition in Königsberg i.Pr.
• The Garnishment , 1847; 1848 Berlin Academic Art Exhibition; 1993 Wuppertal, Volmer Collection.
• Congratulations , 1859 Kunstverein exhibition Königsberg i.Pr. and exhibition of the Silesian Art Association in Wroclaw
• Alba in Rudolstadt , 1869 Munich, annual exhibition in the royal glass palace

literature

• Johann Josef Scotti : The Art School in Düsseldorf. 1. Addendum to the catalog of the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, Cologne 1837, p. 6.
• Hermann Püttmann : The Düsseldorf school of painting and its achievements since the establishment of the art association in 1829. A contribution to modern art history . Leipzig 1839.
• Rudolf Wiegmann : The Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Their history, furnishings and effectiveness and the Düsseldorf artists . Düsseldorf 1856, p. 238.
• Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history I-2. Dresden 1891/1901.
• Bendix, Leopold . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 301-302 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Kate glasses: Berlin portraitists 1820–1850. Berlin 1929, p. 77.
• Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. vol. I, 1976.
• General artist lexicon. (AKL), Volume 8, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 .
• Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , pp. 116-118 (fig.).
• Lisa Hackmann: Leopold Bendix. In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 . de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 19-20 (online).
• Jewish Museum Berlin Foundation (ed.): Stories of an exhibition. Two millennia of German-Jewish history. Catalog of the Jewish Museum Berlin. 2nd Edition. Proprietas-Verlag, Berlin 2002.
• Jewish Museum Berlin Foundation (ed.): ZWEI - magazine of the Jewish Museum Berlin .. In: No. 6, 2005, Berlin 2005, p. 30.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Register Office Berlin I, death register No. 229/1883. State Archives Berlin.
2. ^ Jacob Jacobson: Jewish weddings in Berlin, 1759-1813 . P. 483, no.926
3. ^ TLS: Berlin letters. In: Cotta'sches Kunstblatt. Volume 29, No. 47, September 26, 1848, pp. 185 ff .; Franz Kugler: Small writings. III, 1854.