Friedrich Herlin (c. 1425/30 – 1500)

• Was a German painter.
• His earliest known work, depicting scenes from the Life of the Virgin, is dated 1459.
• A signature on an altarpiece in Nördlingen, dating it to 1462, identifies him as being from Rothenburg ob der Tauber, as do citizenship documents from 1467.
• Stylistically, he borrowed much from Rogier van der Weyden.
• Little else is known of Herlin, save that he died in Nördlingen in 1500.

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