Jacob Bendien (1890–1933), was a Dutch painter and graphic artist.

Biography

He was born in Amsterdam but moved to Paris in 1911 where he met and worked with the sculptor-painter

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and the painter

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. With them he later started making "Absolute schilderkunst", or "Absolute art", a form of

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that grew from their combined Amsterdam art show for the "De Onafhankelijken" (the Amsterdam "Independents" art club) in 1913. Jacob Bendien 001

According to the RKD he was the uncle of

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, who later started the Galerie Espace, a modern art gallery in Haarlem and Amsterdam.Jacob Bendien
in the

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He died in Hilversum of tuberculosis.

References

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*''Jacob Bendien, 1890–1933 : een herinneringsboek'', by

Paul Citroen Roelof Paul Citroen (15 December 1896 – 13 March 1983) was a German-born Dutch artist, art educator and co-founder of the New Art Academy in Amsterdam. Among his best-known works are the photo-montage Metropolis and the 1949 Dutch postage stam ...

, 1940 *''Richtingen in de hedendaagsche schilderkunst'', by Jacob Bendien and Ans Harrenstein-Schräder, Brusse's uitgeversmaatschappij, 1935 {{DEFAULTSORT:Bendien, Jacob 1890 births 1933 deaths Painters from Amsterdam Artists from Paris 20th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters 20th-century Dutch male artists