Siegfried Detlev Bendixen Junge Frau an der Quelle

Siegfried Detlev Bendixen (25 November 1786,

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- 1864,

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) was a

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painter and graphic artist.

Biography

He received his first art lessons as an assistant to the

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painter, . After further training in Kiel and

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, he attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (1809), followed by a year at the

Academy of Fine Arts, Munich The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria, ...

, where he studied

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. Thanks to the financial support of Count , he was able to study in Paris, where he worked with

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until 1812. In 1813, he returned to Hamburg and settled there. On the recommendation of the jurist, , he worked as a teacher at the ". Later, he became a portrait artist; in oils as well as lithographs. In the mid-1820s, together with other local artists, he was part of a non-profit "academy" of the arts that offered two courses; one for young, beginning artists, and one for oil painting, that included working with nude models. His well-known students included Christian Morgenstern,

Henri Lehmann Henri Lehmann (; 14 April 1814 – 30 March 1882) was a German-born French historical painter and portraitist. Life Born Heinrich Salem Lehmann in Kiel, in the Duchy of Holstein, he received his first art tuition from his father Leo Lehmann ( ...

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, and . During that same period, he came into possession of a large collection of paintings and drawings which he sold, over time, to support his other activities. In the late 1820s, he performed numerous commissions for religious art and church decorations. In 1832, for reasons unknown, he moved to London. He continued to work as a portrait painter, but little is known of him after that point. A street in Hamburg's

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district has been named after him. In 2019, his works were part of an exhibit, "Hamburger Schule – Das 19. Jahrhundert neu entdeckt", at the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Sources

* Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, "Siegfried Bendixen", in : ''Kieler Künstler – Kunstleben und Künstlereisen 1770–1870'', Heide 2014, pp. 110–149 * Nina Struckmeyer: "Bendixen, Siegfried Detlev", In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (Eds.): ''Pariser Lehrjahre. Ein Lexikon zur Ausbildung deutscher Maler in der französischen Hauptstadt''. Vol.1: "1793–1843", Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 20–22
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* Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, ''Sehnsucht nach Arkadien: Schleswig-Holsteinische Künstler in Italien'', Heide 2009, Siegfried Bendixen, pp. 44–48-49 * Ralf Busch (Ed.): ''Hamburg Altstadt.'' Führer zu archäologischen Denkmälern in Deutschland. Vol.41. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002. * Andrea Pintsch: "Bendixen, Siegfried Detlev", In: '' Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon.'' Vol. 8. Saur, München 1994, pg.629,

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