Absolon Stumme
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Absolon Stumme (died 1499) was a Late Gothic painter from Northern Germany who worked in Hamburg.
Absolon Stumme married into the Bornemann 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.[1] Both are also associated with the .
References[]
- ^ for the controversy's status in 1950, cf. Thieme-Becker, volume 37, Meister mit Notnamen
- Goldgrund und Himmelslicht. Mittelalter in Hamburg. Exhibit catalog from the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 1999.
External links[]
- Media related to Absolon Stumme at Wikimedia Commons
- Entry for Absolon Stumme on the Union List of Artist Names
- Work by Absolon Stumme in the St. Annen Museum
Categories:
- 1510 deaths
- 15th-century German painters
- 16th-century German painters
- Gothic painters
- German male painters
- German people of Danish descent
- Members of the Hamburg Guild of Saint Luke
- Hamburg stubs
- German painter stubs
- Danish painter stubs