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Friedrich "Fritz" Bindewald (31 January 1862 – 1 February 1940) was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule, and a member of the Reichstag.


Life and work

He was born in Busenborn,
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on 31 January 1862 to , a pastor and writer, and his wife, Luise Christine, née Buff (1832–1913), a great niece of
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. He attended the gymnasium in
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from 1875 to 1880, then performed one year of volunteer community service before taking his exams. From that time until 1888, he was enrolled at the
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, where he studied
history painting History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period. History paintings depict a moment in a narrative story, most often (but not exclusively) Greek and Roman mythology and B ...
, anatomical drawing, and perspective. His instructors included Johann Peter Theodor Janssen,
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, Hugo Crola, and
Julius Roeting Julius Amatus Roeting (13 September 1822, in Dresden – 21 May 1896, in Düsseldorf) was an Austrian painter. Biography He displayed artistic talent while still very young and, at the age of twelve, helped create a painting of a lion on a l ...
. Until 1890, he was a member of "", a nationalistic student organization. From 1888 to 1889, he served a year as a military volunteer, in the 116th Regiment. After 1889, he was a self-employed
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and landscape painter; with a preference for motifs from the
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, the Rhön, and the
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. Later, he became active in the . He was a self-confessed
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. From 1893 to 1903, and again from 1907 to 1912, he was a member of the Imperial Reichstag, representing the
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, for the German Reform Party. In 1896, he married Martha Lange (1865–1919) from
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, the daughter of that city's mayor. Their son, Erwin (1897–1950), was also an artist of some note. He died on 1 February 1940 in
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.


Further reading

* Hans Paffrath,
Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf The Kunstpalast, formerly Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf is an art museum in Düsseldorf. History The roots of the museum go back around 300 years. In 1932, the collection of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Academy of Art) was housed in the Kunstmu ...
, ''Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule''. Vol. 1, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, , pg.439 * Carola Runge: "Theodor, Friedrich und Erwin Bindewald, eine Vogelsberger Künstlerfamilie in drei Generationen". In: ''Hessische Heimat'', #40, 1990, Vols.3/4 * Helge Dvorak: ''Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft.'' Vol.1: ''Politicians'', Koblenz 2021, pgs.15–16.
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External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bindewald, Friedrich 1862 births 1940 deaths People from Vogelsbergkreis People from the Grand Duchy of Hesse German Lutherans German Reform Party politicians Members of the 9th Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the 10th Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the 12th Reichstag of the German Empire 19th-century German painters German genre painters German landscape painters 20th-century German painters