EDUARD BENDEMANN (GERMAN 1811-1889)
A young boy reading at a table (recto); Head of a young boy (verso)
inscribed and dated Df. July 68 (lower left)
pencil 19.1 x 22.7 cm (7 1/2 x 8 7/8 in) mounted unframed

Provenance:
(possibly) Richard Schöne, Berlin Friedrich Schöne, Essen and Berlin (Lugt 3622) Sale: Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 1 December 2006, lot 5638 Dated 1868, this drawing bears the collector’s mark of the lawyer Friedrich Schöne (1882-1963), part of whose collection of 19th century German drawings may have been inherited from his father, the archaeologist and museum director Richard Schöne (1840-1922). Bendemann became professor at the Dresden Akademie in 1838, and soon afterwards received a commission for the fresco decoration of three large rooms in the royal palace in Dresden, a project that was to occupy the artist for the better part of fifteen years. In 1859 he was appointed Director of the Akademie in Düsseldorf, succeeding Wilhelm Schadow. He remained director of the Düsseldorf Akademie until 1867,The year after Bendemann’s death in 1889, a large retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin. A sizeable group of drawings by the artist is held today in the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin, while other significant examples are in the collection of the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf.