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Edward Julius Friedrich Bendemann (* 3. December 1811 in Berlin; † 27 December 1889 in Düsseldorf) was a German portrait and history painter of the Düsseldorf School as well as a university teacher at the art academies of Dresden and Düsseldorf. Bendemann was the son of the Jewish banker Anton Heinrich Bendemann (born Aaron Hirsch Bendix; 1775-1866) and his wife Fanny Eleonore (1778-1857), a daughter of the banker Joel Samuel von Halle. His parents had converted to Christianity before he was born. Bendemann himself was baptized and later confirmed. His family ran an upper middle-class house. Through invitations from his parents, he met his future teacher at the Prussian Academy of Arts, Wilhelm Schadow, who became his brother-in-law in 1838 through his marriage to 17-year-old Lida Schadow. With the painters Christian Köhler, Heinrich Mücke, Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Julius Hübner, Bendemann went to the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1827, where their teacher Schadow had become director in 1826. As the "Schadow Circle" they founded an art movement that was to gain national and later international significance under the name Düsseldorf School of Painting. In 1829, Bendemann accompanied Schadow on his study trips to and through Italy. Also present were Julius Hübner and his young wife Pauline Charlotte, a sister of Bendemann, Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Theodor Hildebrandt. In Rome he moved among the German-Romans and in circles of the Nazarenes, and through them learned to appreciate the masters of the Renaissance. In 1831 Bendemann returned to Germany with Schadow and settled in Düsseldorf as a freelance painter. Further trips to Rome and a trip to France followed, where Bendemann stayed in Paris for a long time. His artistic breakthrough came with the monumental picture The Mourning Jews in Exile, with which he made his debut at the Great Art Exhibition in Berlin in 1832. Bendemann also thematized scenes from the Bible in other pictures and met the fashion of his time with mostly elegiac depictions. From April 1835 to March 1836, Bendemann did his one-year military service with the Hussar Regiment No. 8 in Dusseldorf. During this time his monumental painting Jeremiah on the ruins of Jerusalem was commissioned by the Prussian crown prince, later King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. It was shown in a solo exhibition in Berlin in 1836. In 1838 was Bendemann appointed as a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. Adolf Ehrhardt succeeded him as assistant. Students there included his brother-in-law Felix Schadow and Oscar Begas, Alfred Diethe, Anton Dietrich, Fritz Hummel, Hermann Karl Kersting, Adolph Diedrich Kindermann, Carl Johann Lasch, Julius Roeting Julius Rotermund, Karl Gottlob Schönherr, Karl Wilhelm Schurig, August Viereck, Hermann Wislicenus, Albert von Zahn and David Simonson, who later founded the "Academy for Drawing, Painting and Modeling" in Dresden. With his wife Lida, Bendemann had an important circle of friends, which included many musicians, in particular Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy as well as Clara and Robert Schumann. From 1853 he started suffering from increasing eye problems, in 1857 he suffered a stroke and from 1861 he suffered from a bronchial disease that impaired his ability to speak. In 1859, Bendemann was appointed director of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, which was then located in the picture gallery on Burgplatz. He lived with his family at Goltsteinstraße 2, where he and his wife Lida ran an art-loving bourgeois salon. In Düsseldorf his nephew Eduard Hübner and Wilhelm Beckmann, Theodor von der Beek, Fritz Beinke, Carl Bertling, Franz Heinrich Commans, Hugo Crola, Adolf Graß, Karl Heyden, Peter Janssen the Elder, Fritz Kamphövener, Hermann Knackfuss, Louis Kolitz, Heinrich were among the ranks Lauenstein, Ernst te Peerdt, Julius Roeting, Roland Risse, Laurenz Schäfer, Peter Schick, Carl Maria Seyppel, Wilhelm Simmler, Fritz Sonderland, Wilhelm Trellenkamp and Alexander Zick to his students, Fritz and Ernst Roeber and probably also Moritz von Beckerath to his private students . For health reasons, Bendemann resigned his position as director in 1867 and moved to Berlin with Lida, where they lived in seclusion and where he occasionally gave private lessons and worked on a few commissions. In the house of his father-in-law, Bendemann created a monumental fresco with the symbolic representation The Arts at the Fountain of Poetry.[5] For the royal palace in Dresden, Bendemann was commissioned to decorate three halls (throne hall, tower hall, tower room); he did so with a continuous mural. In the throne room, on either side of the throne, are the figures of great rulers and legislators on a gold background, with related depictions in relief below, in niche-like closed wooden architecture, from Moses except for Albrecht the brave, the ancestor of the reigning royal house. On the wall opposite the throne there are four depictions from the life of King Henry I, with images underneath that represent the professions of the four estates.[6] From 1861 to 1866, during Bendemann's time as academy director in Düsseldorf, monumental frescoes about science, trade, industry and art were created according to his design in the auditorium of the municipal secondary school in Düsseldorf, which was built in 1858.[7][8][9] His son Rudolf Bendemann and the brothers Ernst and Fritz Roeber and Wilhelm Beckmann painted the murals in the first Cornelius Hall of the National Gallery in Berlin based on his designs. Bendemann also demonstrated mastery as a portraitist, which was highly appreciated by the public and art critics. In addition to his wife, his models included the bookseller Heinrich Brockhaus, the painters Wilhelm Camphausen and Wilhelm von Schadow, the historian Johann Gustav Droysen, the musician Joseph Joachim and Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern. He also worked as a medalist. Bendemann was a member of the Berlin University of the Arts, the Düsseldorf Art Academy, the Kassel Art Academy and the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. He was also awarded several medals, in 1867 the Pour le Mérite for art and science. He died of pneumonia as a result of influenza a few days after his 78th birthday. Birthday at Jägerhofstraße 7 in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort. He had lived there since the 1880s with his wife and his ailing son Rudolf, who died in 1884. In 1891, almost 13 months after his death, a legacy exhibition of his works was held in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf after his widow had previously had the oeuvre presented in Berlin, his native city. In addition to paintings, sketches and drawing studies made by Bendemann were also shown in these exhibitions.
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