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{{Short description|German painter (1811–1889)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name             = Eduard Bendemann
| image            = Eduard Bendemann by Overbeck.jpg
| caption          = Eduard Bendemann by G. & A. Overbeck (firm)
| birth_name       = Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1811|12|03|df=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Berlin]]
| death_date       = {{death date and age|df=yes|1889|12|27|1811|12|03}}
| death_place      = [[Düsseldorf]], [[German Empire]]
| nationality      = [[Germany|German]]
| field            = [[Painting]]
| movement         = 
| works            = 
}}

'''Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann''' (3 December 1811, in Berlin – 27 December 1889, in Düsseldorf) was a German-Jewish<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Landman|first1=Isaac|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XZ4YAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA387|title=The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia ...: An Authoritative and Popular Presentation of Jews and Judaism Since the Earliest Times|last2=Cohen|first2=Simon|date=1943|publisher=Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Incorporated|page=387|language=en}}</ref> painter.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Atkinson, J. Beavington|title=German Painters of the Modern School. No. VII.—Edward Bendemann|journal=The Art Journal|date=August 1865|pages=229–232|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039330660;view=1up;seq=327}}</ref>

==Biography==
Bendemann was born in Berlin. His father, Anton Heinrich Bendemann, was a [[Jewish]] banker. His mother, Fanny Eleonore Bendemann ''née'' von Halle, was a daughter of the Jewish banker Joel Samuel von Halle. His father monitored his education closely and it would have naturally led him to some sort of technical occupation, but his talent and propensity towards art resulted in his being allowed to pursue other interests. After he completed elementary school, he enrolled in the [[Wilhelm von Schadow]]'s school in Düsseldorf. In 1828 he painted a portrait of his grandmother which attracted some attention.<ref name=nie>{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Bendemann, Eduard Julius Friedrich|year=1905}}</ref> In 1830 he went on a school trip to Italy where he remained for a year.

After a series of jobs, among them with Boas and Ruth, his talent as an artist began to show, especially with his very large 1832 painting titled, ''The Jews Mourning in Exile'' which was featured in the Berlin art exhibition. The picture garnered a great deal of attention, which was in part due to the deep and simple feeling and the noble composition of the piece, and finally went to the [[Wallraf-Richartz Museum]] in [[Cologne]]. Bendemann's second picture, ''The Two Girls at the Well'' (1832), was acquired by the [[North Rhine-Westphalia]] Art Association. Soon thereafter followed ''Jeremiah amid the Ruins of Jerusalem'' for which the artist received a medal in Paris in 1837. This painting was for the most part about the progress of the Jews in Babylon (Royal Palace in Hanover). His best known work is ''The Harvest''. The artist’s first fresco was a symbolic representation of the art at the “Poetry Well” at the house of his parents-in-law in Berlin.

In the year 1838, Bendemann was appointed professor of the [[Dresden Academy of Fine Arts]]. He soon had the opportunity to paint even larger frescos. He was commissioned to decorate three halls of the Dresden royal palace with wall paintings: the throne room, the tower room, and the tower hall. In the throne room, on both sides of the throne, there are representations of important rulers and legislators in gold leaf with smaller representations in relief form below, from [[Moses]] up to [[Albert III, Duke of Saxony]]. On the wall facing the throne there are four paintings depicting events from the life of King [[Henry the Fowler|Heinrich I]] each with other pictures attached which explain each of the four events. This exacting work occupied the greater part of his time for fifteen years. From 1859 to 1867, he was director of the [[Kunstakademie Düsseldorf|Düsseldorf Academy]].<ref name="nie"/>

Bendemann's uncle was [[Benedict Heinrich Bendix]], noted engraver.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Portrait of Israel Jacob (1729-1803)|url=https://www.lbi.org/artcatalog/record/245964|access-date=2021-01-12|website=www.lbi.org|language=en-US}}</ref>

Bendemann died in [[Düsseldorf]].

In 1891, barely 13 months after his death, an estate exhibition of his works was held at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, after his widow had previously had the œuvre presented in Berlin, his native city. In these exhibitions, in addition to paintings, sketches and drawing studies made by Bendemann were also shown.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00016200 |title=Bendemann, Eduard Julius Friedrich |date=2011-10-31 |publisher=Oxford University Press |series=Benezit Dictionary of Artists|doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00016200 }}</ref>

== Family ==
*[[:de:File:WP Felix und Lida Schadow.jpg|''Felix und Lida Schadow'']] - Felix Schadow and his sister Lida Schadow, later wife of Eduard Bendemann. Painting by [[Franz Krüger]].[[Image:Eduard Bendemann.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Bendemann by [[Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein]], chalk on paper, 1838]]
* On 28 October 1838 Eduard Bendemann married Lida Schadow (1821–1850), daughter of the famous sculptor [[Johann Gottfried Schadow]] and sister of [[Wilhelm von Schadow]]. Their children:
** Gottfried Arnold Bendemann (born 1839, Dresden - 1882), Major, ''Ritter d. [[Pour le Mérite]]'' m. Hedwig Krüger. Their son is Friedrich Bendemann.
** Marie Euler Bendemann (born 1841, Dresden – 1874) m. Otto Euler, Councillor of Justice ({{langx|de|link=no|Justizrat}}). Their son is Eduard Euler, a painter.
** Ernst Julius Bendemann (born 1844, Dresden – ?) m. Alwine Jung
** Fanny Mathilde Susanne Bendemann (born 1846, Dresden – ?)
** Felix Eduard Robert Emil Bendemann (born 1848, Dresden – 1915, Berlin), Royal Admiral, 1905 ennobled<ref>Compare him with {{NDB|2|37|38|Bendemann, Felix|[[Hans Roemer]]}}</ref> m. Helene Sophia Sturz, daughter of Brazilian consul general in Berlin Joh. Jac. Sturz. Their son Eduard, likewise a painter, married the famous female philosopher of Judaism [[Margarete Susman]].
**Rudolf Christian Eugen Bendemann (1851–1884), historic painter[[File:Eduard Bendemann 1811 - 1889 Selbstbildnis 1859.jpg|thumb|Eduard Bendemann, ''Self-Portrait,'' 1859]]

== Works ==
[[Image:Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Bleistiftzeichnung von Eduard Bendemann 1833.jpg|thumb|Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy]]
* [[File:Eduard Bendemann- Die trauernden Juden im Exil um 1832.jpg|thumb|The Mourning Jews in Exile, c. 1832]]''[[Boas und Ruth]]''
* ''[[Die trauernden Juden im Exil]]'' (1832)
* ''[[Zwei Mädchen am Brunnen]]'' (1832)
* ''[[Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy]]'' (1833)
* ''[[Jeremias auf den Trümmern von Jerusalem]]'' (1837)
* ''[[Die Künste am Brunnen der Poesie]]'' (fresco)
* ''[[Die Ernte]]''
* ''[[Wegführung der trauernden Juden in die babylonische Gefangenschaft]]'' (1872)
* ''[[Nathan der Weise]]''
* ''[[Penelope]]'' (1877)

== Literature ==
* [[Sigrid Achenbach]] (ed.): ''Eduard Bendemann, 1811–1889. Die Werke in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin und im Mendelssohn-Archiv der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Katalog zur Ausstellung des Kupferstichkabinetts Eduard Bendemann. Zeichnungen, Alte Nationalgalerie, 16.11.2007 – 24.02.2008'', Berlin: [[G+H Verlag]], 2007.
* [[Silke Brandmeier]]: ''Die Künste am Brunnen der Poesie'', Berlin [[Schadow-Gesellschaft]], 2000.
* {{NDB|2|36|37|Bendemann, Eduard|[[Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf]]}}
* {{de-ADB|46|348|350|Bendemann, Eduard|[[Eduard Daelen]]|ADB:Bendemann, Eduard}}
* [[Josef Schrattenholz]]: ''Eduard Bendemann. Betrachtungen und Erinnerungen'', Düsseldorf, 1891.

==See also==
* [[List of German painters]]
* [[Düsseldorf school of painting]]
* [[Kunstakademie Düsseldorf]]
* [[Berlin University of the Arts]]
* [[Dresden Academy of Fine Arts]]
* [[Felix von Bendemann]]
{{See also|Bendemann}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060404005438/http://www.bh.org.il/Names/POW/Bendemann.asp Museum of the Jewish People]
* {{Cite Americana|wstitle=Bendemann, Eduard  |year=1920 |short=x}}

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