Derik or Derick Baegert (ca. 1440 - after 1515) was a German late Gothic painter. Derick Baegert was probably born in Wesel around 1435-1440 to Johan Baegert, a merchant, and Mechtelt Mynreman. While his family wasn't very wealthy, Derick ended his life as one of the richer people of Wesel, living in a grand house on the Brückstrasse in the old town of Wesel. Painter Jan Baegert, in earlier literature named the Master of Cappenberg, was his son, and

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, who may have been his nephew, and the Master of the Schermbecker Altar were probably some of his pupils. Apart from some works for the city and churches of Wesel (including the retable for the Mathenachurch, largely destroyed in the Second World War), he also painted large

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s for churches like the Propsteichurch in Dortmund, and works for private devotion.

Gallery

File:Derick Baegert - Christ Carrying the Cross and Veronica with the Sudarium - WGA1143.jpg, ''Christ Carrying the Cross and Veronica with the Sudarium'', 1477-1478, now in the

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in Madrid File:Derick Baegert - Ritter und Soldaten beim Würfelspiel um Christi Gewand.jpg, ''Knights and Soldiers playing Dice for Christ's Robe'', part from the polyptych in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum File:Derick Baegert - Saint Luke Painting the Virgin - WGA01145.jpg, ''Saint Luke Painting the Virgin'', ca. 1470, now in the Westfalisches Landesmuseum, Münster File:Derick-Baegert- Eidesleistung-1493.jpg, ''Oath taking in courtroom'', 1493, now in the Städtisches Gallerie im Centrum, Wesel File:Germanisches Nationalmuseum 089.JPG, ''Washing the hands of Pilatus'', now in the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Baegert, Derick 15th-century births 16th-century deaths People from Wesel 15th-century German painters German male painters Gothic painters