Wilhelm Bendz

Wilhelm Bendz, around 1830

Wilhelm Bendz: Nude lessons at the art academy , 1826, oil on canvas, 57.7 × 82.5 cm, Statens Museum for Kunst . Bendz has depicted himself on the lower left. His facial expressions and the behavior of some students show a critical or disinterested attitude towards traditional academic operations.

Wilhelm Bendz: A sculptor (Cristen Cristensen) in the studio working on a living model , 1827, 219.7 × 187.7 cm, Statens Museum for Kunst. Bendz contrasts the ancient statues with a new ideal of reality.

Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz (born March 20, 1804 in Odense , † November 14, 1832 in Vicenza ) was a Danish painter who became known as a genre and portrait painter of the Golden Age of Denmark . Despite his short life, his work is extremely innovative and, unlike that of his fellow students at the Danish Academy, probably influenced decisively by the German painting of his time - especially by Johann Erdmann Hummel .

Life

Wilhelm Bendz began his studies at the Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen in 1820, initially in architecture. In 1822 he was a private student of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg and strove to combine portrait , genre and history painting . Dramatic lighting effects and the playful, self-ironic examination of his own artistic community characterize his work. In the academy competition he received the silver medal. After graduation, he did not take any painting classes for four years. On his trip to the south, he made a one-year stop in Munich . He died of pneumonia during his first trip to Italy at the age of 28.

literature

Philip Weilbach : Bentz, Vilhelm Ferdinand . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 2 : Beccau – Brandis . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1888, p. 57-59 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
Andreas Røder : Painters W. Bendz. (= Peter Johansen (ed.): Blade af dansk Kunsts Historie. 8–9). Karl Køstens kunstforlag, Copenhagen 1905.
Andreas Røder: Bendz, Wilhelm . 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. 305 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Bendz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Patricia G. Berman: In Another Light - Danish Painting in the Nineteenth Century . Thames and Hudson, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-500-23844-8 , pp. 37 f., 65 .
^ ^A ^b William Hauptman, Peter Nørgaard Larsen: Impressions du Nord - La peinture scandinave 1800-1915 (catalog) . Fondation de l'Hermitage / 5 Continents Éditions, Lausanne / Milano 2005, p. 154 .
^ Jens Toft, Jonathan Lévy: Le siècle d'or de la peinture danoise - Une collection française . Ed .: Jean-Loup Champion. 1st edition. Éditions Gallimard / Musées de Roubaix et du Havre, Paris 2013, p. Annexe biographique .

personal data
SURNAME	Bendz, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bendz, Wilhelm Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 20, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH	Odense
DATE OF DEATH	November 14, 1832
Place of death	Vicenza

[:1-1] Patricia G. Berman: In Another Light - Danish Painting in the Nineteenth Century . Thames and Hudson, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-500-23844-8 , pp. 37 f., 65 .

[:0-2] A ^b William Hauptman, Peter Nørgaard Larsen: Impressions du Nord - La peinture scandinave 1800-1915 (catalog) . Fondation de l'Hermitage / 5 Continents Éditions, Lausanne / Milano 2005, p. 154 .

[3] Jens Toft, Jonathan Lévy: Le siècle d'or de la peinture danoise - Une collection française . Ed .: Jean-Loup Champion. 1st edition. Éditions Gallimard / Musées de Roubaix et du Havre, Paris 2013, p. Annexe biographique .