MEMLING, HANS


Meaning of MEMLING, HANS in English

or Hans Memlinc

born 0441; 1430/35, Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt am Main

died Aug. 11, 1494, Bruges

Flemish painter.

He settled in Bruges in 1465 and established a large workshop that became very successful and made him one of the city's wealthiest citizens. Though somewhat derivative of the works of contemporary Flemish painters ( Jan van Eyck , Dirck Bouts , Hugo van der Goes , and particularly Rogier van der Weyden ), his art has great charm and a distinctive character. Memling's religious paintings and portraits of wealthy patrons (e.g., Tommaso Portinari and His Wife , 0441; 1468) were, and remain, enormously popular.

"Diptych with Madonna and Martin van Nieuwenhove" (left wing), oil on panel by Hans ...

By courtesy of the Memling-Museum, Brugge, Bel., photograph, © A.C.L., Brussels

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