Absolon Stumme (died 1499) was a Late Gothic painter from Northern Germany who worked in

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. Absolon Stumme married into the family of artists, becoming the second stepfather of Hinrik Bornemann, who died the same year as he did. After their deaths the Hamburg Cathedral altarpiece, upon which they had been working, was finished by Wilm Dedeke. It is debated by 20th-century art historians which of the two is recorded as the ''Master of the Hamburg cathedral altar''.for the controversy's status in 1950, cf.

Thieme-Becker Thieme-Becker is a German biographical dictionary of artists. Thieme-Becker The dictionary was begun under the editorship of Ulrich Thieme (1865–1922) (volumes one to fifteen) and Felix Becker (1864–1928) (volumes one to four). It was complet ...

, volume 37, ''Meister mit Notnamen'' Both are also associated with the Master of the Lüneburg foot washing.

References

*''Goldgrund und Himmelslicht. Mittelalter in Hamburg.'' Exhibit catalog from the

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, Hamburg 1999.

External links

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Entry for Absolon Stumme
on the

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Work by Absolon Stumme
in the St. Annen Museum 1510 deaths Year of birth unknown 15th-century German painters 16th-century German painters Gothic painters German male painters German people of Danish descent Painters from Hamburg {{Denmark-painter-stub