Henning van der Heide (sometimes von der Heide/Heyde, ca. 1460 - 1521) was a

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late

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sculptor.

Life and works

Little is known about van der Heide's personal life. He was trained in the workshop of

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(and worked with him on his famous '' Saint George and the Dragon'' statue in Stockholm) and seems to have lived and worked in

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, present-day

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. In 1485 he married, and in 1487 he purchased a house in Königstraße street of Lübeck. In 1513 he was made

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at the guild of painters. He seems to have retired in 1519, when his workshop passed to his oldest son. For a craftsman of his age he appears to have been unusually wealthy as he managed to purchase three houses, one for each of his sons. His works are often confusingly similar to those of Notke, and scholars debate about what works should be assigned to which artist. As a rule, however, van der Heide seem to have added more individuality to his portraits and less emotionally overstated. Works attributable to van der Heide include altarpieces in Brændekilde church,

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and in Saaremaa Museum,

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(previously in Kaarma church); the Saint George and the Dragon group currently in the St. Anne's Museum, Lübeck; a sculpture of St. Jerome in

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, Sweden; a sculpted head of St. John the Baptist currently in the

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, and others.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Heide, Henning von der 1460 births 1521 deaths 15th-century German sculptors German male sculptors 16th-century German sculptors Gothic sculptors Artists from Lübeck