Jacob Bendien (16 April 1890, 16 Dec 1933), was a Dutch painter and graphic artist. He was born in Amsterdam but moved to Paris in 1911 where he met and worked with the sculptor-painter John Rädecker and the painter Jan van Deene. With them he later started making "Absolute schilderkunst", or "Absolute art", a form of abstract art that grew from their combined Amsterdam ...