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Bendien, Jacob
(b Amsterdam, 16 April 1890; d Amsterdam, 16 Dec 1933). Dutch painter and draughtsman. He made his first abstract line drawings c. 1910, which he showed at an autumn exhibition of De Onafhankelijken (The Independents) in Amsterdam. Between 1909 and 1914, with Jan van Deene (1886–1977) and John Anton Raedecker (1885–1956) in Paris he developed absolute schilderkunst, an early form of linear abstraction. In 1912 he exhibited stylized heads composed of flowing lines in the Moderne Kunstkring. In his oeuvre abstract work and stylized motifs from nature feature alongside each other. Bendien was a close friend of Mondrian. In 1923 he settled in Amsterdam. Towards the end of the 1920s he also produced figurative work in the style of Neue Sachlichkeit. He also made biomorphic sculptures, reminiscent of the work of Hans Arp. A posthumously published book (1935) lays down Bendien’s views on contemporary painting, in which he postulates the term Meditisme to define his own work: fluidity of line and colour represent the painter’s thoughts and emotional life.
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