Heinrich Aldegrever

Around 1525 he moved to Soest, where a year later he painted the wings and predella of the Mary altar for the church of St. Peter.

[2] Aldegrever, who actively supported the Reformation, executed portraits of Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon.

He was commissioned by the bishop of Münster in 1535–36 to engrave portraits of Anabaptist leaders Jan van Leyden and Bernhard Knipperdolling, although they were already imprisoned, and only caricatures of them circulated.

In the cycle Power of Death, done under visible influence of Hans Holbein, he criticizes the vices of the Catholic Church.

Only two paintings are firmly attributed to him: the wings and predella of the Marienaltar (c. 1525-6) in the Wiesenkirche in Soest, and a portrait of Graf Phillip von Waldeck (1837) in Schloss Aroldsen.