Wilm Dedeke ( – 1528) was a late gothic painter from

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. He was born in

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. Dedeke completed the Altar of St. Luke (Lukas-Altar) at the Hamburg Mariendom in 1499 for the Hamburg

Guild of Saint Luke The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Evangelist Luke, the patron saint of artists, who was iden ...

. It had been left unfinished by his late colleagues

Hinrik Bornemann Hinrik Bornemann (b. circa 1450 in Hamburg, d. 1499- Also known as Henrik Bornemann or Hinrich Bornemann) was a Northern German Late Gothic painter. He was the son of Hans Bornemann, who died in 1474. After his father's death his mother was th ...

and Absolon Stumme; Dedeke married the widow of the latter man. In 1502 he attained the title of Master of the Brotherhood of St. Thomas.Gmelin, Hans Georg
"Dedeke, Wilm."
In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed 3 February 2012; subscription required). He has been identified with the anonymous "Master of the Halepagen Altar".Entry for the Master of the Halepagen Altar
on the

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He died in

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Works

* Wings of the ''Altar of the Brotherhood of Corpus Christi'' (1496) from the Cloisters in

, today in the St. Annen Museum * ''Shrine of St. Anne'' (1500), also in the St. Annen Museum * ''The Crucified Christ'' (1500), from the St. Catherine's Church, Hamburg, now in the collection of the

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* ''Madonna with Child'' (1500), St. Annen Museum.

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Wilm Dedeke on the website of the Museum of Schleswig-Holstein
(In German) 1460 births 1528 deaths Artists from Lübeck Painters from Schleswig-Holstein Gothic painters 15th-century German painters German male painters 16th-century German painters Painters from Hamburg {{Germany-painter-stub

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