About Absolon Stumme
Lived 1450 – 1510 (aged 59–60). Absolon Stumme was a German painter.
A wing of the so-called Hamburg Altar, National Museum in Warsaw. Absolon Stumme (died 1499) was a Late Gothic painter from Northern Germany who worked in Hamburg.
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. Both are also associated with the Master of the Lüneburg foot washing.
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Who was Absolon Stumme?
German artist
When was Absolon Stumme born?
Absolon Stumme was born in 1450.
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Absolon Stumme died in 1510.
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Absolon Stumme was a painter.
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Absolon Stumme was German.
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