Master Francke (c.1380-c.1440)

• Alias Hamburger Meister or Frater Francke, was a North German Gothic painter and Dominican friar.
• He may have trained as an illuminator and painter in France or the Netherlands, and later worked in Münster, before joining in St John's Priory in Hamburg by 1424 at the latest.
• Francke was almost entirely forgotten after the Renaissance until the end of the 19th century when, like Master Bertram, he was rediscovered and published by Alfred Lichtwart, Director of the Hamburg Kunsthalle.
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