Derick Baegert

Derick Baegert [ba ː gərt ] (* 1440 in Wesel, Wesel † after 1502 ) was a German painter of the late Gothic period. In Flemish, Westphalian and Rhenish influence he developed his own style of extraordinary quality. His works are characterized by a high degree of detail in the painting.

Works

Baegert painted around 1475 for the high altar of the church of the Dominican monastery in Dortmund, today the Parish Church of where the reredos is still not drawn up. The painting was commissioned by the Duke John I of Cleves, for the monk monastery in the imperial city. In the work a self-portrait of the artist is transmitted, the first known in the North-West European painting at all.

In the following period (1477-1478) the high altar of the destroyed in the Second World War Mathenakirche in Wesel, of which only fragments in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection was obtained. To 1493/94 he created the dish picture oath, which originally adorned the Council Chamber of the Town Hall and Wesel Wesel, today the Municipal Museum. Baegert is the author of some other table altars in northern West Germany, including the Crucifixion altar of St. Lawrence in Cologne, in 1500, now the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.

The triptych of Derick Baegert in the Parish Church of Dortmund

Workshop

In Baegerts workshop worked alongside his son Jan, who is also regarded as the painter of the Cappenberger altar also be Cousin Jan Joest (van Kalkar ), son of Dericks sister Catherine. January Joest made ​​including the high altar in the church of St. Nicolai in Kalkar and a lost high altar of the monastery becoming.

Derik Baegert society

Since 1968 the name of the painter with the Derik Baegert company is linked. It maintains the Ringberg Castle on the Lower Rhine a studio center for the promotion of young artists.