Master of the Hildesheim Magdalene Legend (active c. 1420)

• Also known as the Master of the Goettingen Barefoot Altar.
• Was a Gothic German painter.
• Master was active in Hildesheim and Göttingen first quarter of the 15th century
• The Master of the Hildesheim Magdalene Legend is so named here after this exquisite set of panels that once formed the wing of an altarpiece in the monastery of Saint Mary Magdalene in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, created around 1416–20.
• The artist has also long been known as the ‘Master of the Göttingen Barefoot Altar’ after his altarpiece of 1424 made for the Franciscan church of that name in that city and now preserved in the Hanover Landesmuseum.
• This elegant anonymous Master was active in both cities in the first quarter of the fifteenth century and was much influenced by other artists active in Lower Saxony such as Bertram von Minden as well as Conrad von Soest in adjacent Westphalia.
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