Hans Memling (Memlinc) Born circa 1430 and died 11 August 1494. He was an Early Netherlanderish painter, born in Germany, who was the last major fifteenth century artist in the Low Countries, the successor to Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, whose tradition he continued with little innovation.
Born in Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt in the Middle Rhein region, it is believed that Memling served his apprenticeship at Mainz or Koln, and later worked in the Netherlands under Rogier van der Weyden. He then went to Bruges around 1465.
There is an apocryphical story that he was a wounded at the Battle of Nancy, sheltered and cured by the Hospitallers at Bruges, and that to show his gratitude he refused payment for a picture he had painted for them. Memling did indeed paint for the Hospitallers, but he painted several pictures for them, in 1479 and 1480, and it is likely that he was known to his patrons of St John, prior to the Battle of Nancy.
Ursula?s Shrine, gilded wood and painted. 1433
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Hans_MemlingUrsulaschrein.jpg
The Last Judgment in the cathedral of the Hanse city Gdańsk (Danzig), Poland. Critical opinion has been unanimous in assigning the altarpiece of Gdańsk to Memling. This affirms that Memling was a resident and a skilled artist at Bruges in 1473; for the Last Judgment was undoubtedly painted and sold to a merchant at Bruges, who shipped it there on board of a vessel bound to the Mediterranean, which was captured by Gdańsk privateer Pa?el Benecke in that very year. This purchase of his pictures by an agent of the Medici demostrates that he had a considerable reputation.
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/MemlingLastJudgement.jpg
Triptych of Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation (front) (c.1485)
Oil on oak panel, 22 x 15 cm (each wing) on loan from: Mus?e des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg.
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Memling_Vanity_and_SalvationTriptyc.jpg
Passion Altarpiece/Polyptych (1491) in L?beck There is later work of the master in the St Christopher and Saints of 1484 in the academy, or the Newenhoven Madonna in the hospital of Bruges, or a large Crucifixion, with scenes from the Passion, of 1491 from the L?beck Cathedral (Dom) of L?beck, on loan from: L?beck's St. Annen Museum.
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Hans_Memling_Passion.jpg
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Born in Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt in the Middle Rhein region, it is believed that Memling served his apprenticeship at Mainz or Koln, and later worked in the Netherlands under Rogier van der Weyden. He then went to Bruges around 1465.
There is an apocryphical story that he was a wounded at the Battle of Nancy, sheltered and cured by the Hospitallers at Bruges, and that to show his gratitude he refused payment for a picture he had painted for them. Memling did indeed paint for the Hospitallers, but he painted several pictures for them, in 1479 and 1480, and it is likely that he was known to his patrons of St John, prior to the Battle of Nancy.
Ursula?s Shrine, gilded wood and painted. 1433
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Hans_MemlingUrsulaschrein.jpg
The Last Judgment in the cathedral of the Hanse city Gdańsk (Danzig), Poland. Critical opinion has been unanimous in assigning the altarpiece of Gdańsk to Memling. This affirms that Memling was a resident and a skilled artist at Bruges in 1473; for the Last Judgment was undoubtedly painted and sold to a merchant at Bruges, who shipped it there on board of a vessel bound to the Mediterranean, which was captured by Gdańsk privateer Pa?el Benecke in that very year. This purchase of his pictures by an agent of the Medici demostrates that he had a considerable reputation.
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/MemlingLastJudgement.jpg
Triptych of Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation (front) (c.1485)
Oil on oak panel, 22 x 15 cm (each wing) on loan from: Mus?e des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg.
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Memling_Vanity_and_SalvationTriptyc.jpg
Passion Altarpiece/Polyptych (1491) in L?beck There is later work of the master in the St Christopher and Saints of 1484 in the academy, or the Newenhoven Madonna in the hospital of Bruges, or a large Crucifixion, with scenes from the Passion, of 1491 from the L?beck Cathedral (Dom) of L?beck, on loan from: L?beck's St. Annen Museum.
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Hans_Memling_Passion.jpg
((All information taken from Wikipedia, all images are public domain and no longer under copyright protection.))