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About Eva Bendien
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In November 1956 opened Bendien Eva and Polly Chapon their Gallery Espace in the Small Heiligland 36 in Haarlem. The gallery was located in the workshop of Polly's husband, the painter Jules Chapon. Was working on the opening exhibition features, among others, Karel Appel and Corneille and would be for years she and other Cobra artists belong to the core of the Espace exhibitors. Also exhibited there sculptors with mostly small sculptures, such Wessel Couzijn. Double Talents were a standout category in the 'stable' Galerie Espace, as Anton Heyboer, who combined in his work, words and images, the poet-painter Lucebert and the writer-painter Hugo Claus. Bendien and Chapon themselves had a talent for publicity. That gave them not exactly good sales, but national and soon international fame. In 1963 they took upon invitation, participated in the "Salon international galleries pilotes' in Lausanne, where she represented with galerie d'Eendt Netherlands. The exhibition was decorated by interior designer and Benno, who also other Espace exhibits furnished.
Meanwhile Eva were Bendien and moved the gallery in 1960 to Amsterdam, where the gallery would be easily accessible to the (international) art world - museum directors, dealers and collectors. On the first floor of Keizersgracht 548 Bendien Eva and Polly Chapon opened their first Amsterdam exhibition, which was also the Dutch debut of the Chinese artist Walasse Ting. Three years later Chapon left to start his own gallery in Brussels. Initially Bendien drove the gallery now on her own. In 1965 came a new partner, Rutger Noordhoek Regt, a former medical student who took the administration itself. Art was not his field, but soon he accompanied Bendien her studio visits and her travel to international art events like the Venice Biennale and Documenta in Kassel. When their business partnership was also a life partnership, do not identify themselves and when they are married is unknown. Their leisure time they often spent at least by their small cottage in the Land of Maas and Waal.
In 1997 Galerie Espace the fortieth anniversary was celebrated with an exhibition of 'own' artists in the gallery and exhibit 40 years Espace 'in the meat market in Haarlem. New artists took Bendien when no longer in the file of the gallery, now renowned and 'established' was. Eva Bendien died in March 2000 at the age of 79. She was buried at the New Eastern Cemetery in Amsterdam.
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Eva Bendien's Timeline
| 1921 |
January 8, 1921
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Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
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| 1948 |
October 3, 1948
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Amsterdam, Government of Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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| 2000 |
March 8, 2000
Age 79
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Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
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