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'{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2013}} [[Image:Meister Bertram von Minden 002.jpg|thumb|Part of the ''Grabow Altarpiece'']] '''Master Bertram''' (c.1345&ndash;c.1415), also known as '''Meister Bertram''' and '''Master of Minden''', was a German [[International Gothic]] painter primarily of religious art. ==Life== Bertram was born in [[Minden]]. He is first recorded in Hamburg in 1367, and lived there for the rest of his life, becoming a citizen and Master in 1376, and achieving considerable prosperity. In 1390 he made a will in advance of an intended pilgrimage to Rome, but if he made the journey it had no detectable influence on his art. He was married, but his wife had died by his second will in 1410, when he had a surviving daughter. He died in [[Hamburg]]. ==Works== His most famous surviving work is the large ''[[Grabow Altarpiece]]'' (or ''Petri-Altar'') in the [[Kunsthalle Hamburg]], the largest and most important North German painting of the period. There is a 45-scene altarpiece of the [[Apocalypse]], probably by his workshop, in the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] in London. He, or his workshop, also produced sculpture, presumably in wood; in fact in his first years in Hamburg most surviving documentation relates to sculpture, including [[chandelier]]s. A sculpture group depicting [[Saint Christopher]] by his hand is located in [[Falsterbo church]], [[Sweden]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.vellinge.se/uppleva-gora/turism/sevardheter/kyrkorna/falsterbo-kyrka-st-gertruds-kyrka/|title= Falsterbo kyrka, St. Gertruds kyrka|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |language=Swedish|date= |website= |publisher= Vellinge municipality|accessdate=July 16, 2013}}</ref> His style is less emotional than that of his Hamburg near-contemporary [[Master Francke]], but has great charm. Bertram was largely forgotten after the Renaissance until the end of the 19th century when, like Master Francke, he was rediscovered and published by Alfred Lichtwark, Director of the Hamburg Kunsthalle.[1]this site is crap == Literature == * Dube, Elizabeth Healy: "The Grabow Altar of Master Bertram von Minden", Providence, Brown Univ., Diss., 1982 ==See also== * [[List of German painters]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> | NAME = Master Bertram | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = Painter | DATE OF BIRTH = 1345 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = 1415 | PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Master Bertram}} [[Category:1345 births]] [[Category:1415 deaths]] [[Category:14th-century German painters]] [[Category:15th-century German painters]] [[Category:People from Minden]] [[Category:People from Hamburg]] [[Category:Gothic painters]]'