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The German painter and graphic artist Siegfried Detlev Bendixen was born in Kiel in 1786 and died in 1864 at the age of 78 in London, where he had emigrated in 1832. Importance comes to the history painter Bendixen especially because of his depictions of North German history.
The first surviving artistic attempts Bendixen made in 1802, when the famous Italian fresco painter Giuseppe Anselmo Luigi Pellicia took him on. The Lombard Pellicia, famous for his Pompeian style, had come to Germany in 1797 to artistically decorate the Emkendorf estate, which was prominent at the time and where, for example, the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock or the French General Lafayette were received. At the Emkendorf estate, Bendixen initially worked as an assistant to his Italian teacher before continuing his artistic training in Kiel, Hamburg and Italy. In 1809 Bendixen enrolled as a student at the Dresden Academy of Art (in the same year he was accepted by the Masonic lodge "Absalom zu den drei Nesseln"), but the following year he transferred to the Munich Academy of Art. A year later, the financial support of Friedrich Karl Graf von Reventlow, the owner of Gut Emkendorf, enabled him to spend two years in Paris. During this time he was taught in the studio of the French history painter Jacques-Louis David. In 1913 Bendixen returned to Germany and began his own career as a painter. Among other things, he was accepted by the Hamburg "Patriotische Gesellschaft von 1765" as a drawing instructor. In this function he taught several later very successful artists, for example the landscape painter Christian Morgenstern or the late romantic painter VVictor Emil Janssen. Furthermore, historical research has pointed to Bendixen's close contact with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, to whom he sent various pictorial works in the 1820s. In addition, Bendixen created a lithographic portrait of Goethe in 1824.
Bendixen rendered special services in artistically recording prehistoric North German monuments. Among other things, he depicted the barrows of Volksdorf in the form of three lithographs, as well as various lithographs of North German antiquities in the possession of the Patriotic Society of Altona. Particularly well known is also the painting "Christmas 1813", which can still be seen today in the St. Peter's Church in Hamburg. In this work, Bendixen refers to the French occupation of Hamburg between 1806 and 1814. Furthermore, Bendixen immortalized the Benedictine monk Ansgar of Bremen (St. Ansgar) in a life-size representation and produced an altar painting of the Emmaus scene from the Gospel of Luke. Both works are still preserved in the St. Trinitas Church in Hamburg Altona and in the St. Peter Church in Krempe. In 1929, the city of Hamburg honored Bendixen's achievements and dedicated the Bendixensweg in Hamburg-Barmbek to him. Bendixenstraße in the Kiel district of Kiel-Wik is also named after Bendixen. In 2019, Bendixen's works were part of the exhibition Hamburger Schule - Das 19. Jahrhundert neu entdeckt (Hamburg School - The 19th Century Rediscovered), which ran from April to July at the Hamburger Kunsthalle.
The German painter and graphic artist Siegfried Detlev Bendixen was born in Kiel in 1786 and died in 1864 at the age of 78 in London, where he had emigrated in 1832. Importance comes to the history painter Bendixen especially because of his depictions of North German history.
The first surviving artistic attempts Bendixen made in 1802, when the famous Italian fresco painter Giuseppe Anselmo Luigi Pellicia took him on. The Lombard Pellicia, famous for his Pompeian style, had come to Germany in 1797 to artistically decorate the Emkendorf estate, which was prominent at the time and where, for example, the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock or the French General Lafayette were received. At the Emkendorf estate, Bendixen initially worked as an assistant to his Italian teacher before continuing his artistic training in Kiel, Hamburg and Italy. In 1809 Bendixen enrolled as a student at the Dresden Academy of Art (in the same year he was accepted by the Masonic lodge "Absalom zu den drei Nesseln"), but the following year he transferred to the Munich Academy of Art. A year later, the financial support of Friedrich Karl Graf von Reventlow, the owner of Gut Emkendorf, enabled him to spend two years in Paris. During this time he was taught in the studio of the French history painter Jacques-Louis David. In 1913 Bendixen returned to Germany and began his own career as a painter. Among other things, he was accepted by the Hamburg "Patriotische Gesellschaft von 1765" as a drawing instructor. In this function he taught several later very successful artists, for example the landscape painter Christian Morgenstern or the late romantic painter VVictor Emil Janssen. Furthermore, historical research has pointed to Bendixen's close contact with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, to whom he sent various pictorial works in the 1820s. In addition, Bendixen created a lithographic portrait of Goethe in 1824.
Bendixen rendered special services in artistically recording prehistoric North German monuments. Among other things, he depicted the barrows of Volksdorf in the form of three lithographs, as well as various lithographs of North German antiquities in the possession of the Patriotic Society of Altona. Particularly well known is also the painting "Christmas 1813", which can still be seen today in the St. Peter's Church in Hamburg. In this work, Bendixen refers to the French occupation of Hamburg between 1806 and 1814. Furthermore, Bendixen immortalized the Benedictine monk Ansgar of Bremen (St. Ansgar) in a life-size representation and produced an altar painting of the Emmaus scene from the Gospel of Luke. Both works are still preserved in the St. Trinitas Church in Hamburg Altona and in the St. Peter Church in Krempe. In 1929, the city of Hamburg honored Bendixen's achievements and dedicated the Bendixensweg in Hamburg-Barmbek to him. Bendixenstraße in the Kiel district of Kiel-Wik is also named after Bendixen. In 2019, Bendixen's works were part of the exhibition Hamburger Schule - Das 19. Jahrhundert neu entdeckt (Hamburg School - The 19th Century Rediscovered), which ran from April to July at the Hamburger Kunsthalle.