Jacob Bendien1890–1933Meditistic Arabesque
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the work
Around 1913, Jacob Bendien and several other Dutchmen developed their own form of entirely abstract art. They presented it in Amsterdam as ‘absolute art’, derived from the ‘absolute music’ – music not explicitly about anything – that was making its appearance at the time. In his work Bendien strove for what he called ‘Meditism’, an expression of emotions that was controlled by the mind.
Rijksmuseum
Particulars
- Accession number
- RP-T-2019-72
Sources
- Rijksmuseum: the museum's own open data · fetched 6 days ago
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
