Henning van der Heide

He was trained in the workshop of Bernt Notke (and worked with him on his famous Saint George and the Dragon statue in Stockholm)[1] and seems to have lived and worked in Lübeck, present-day Germany.

In 1485 he married, and in 1487 he purchased a house in Königstraße street of Lübeck.

For a craftsman of his age he appears to have been unusually wealthy as he managed to purchase three houses, one for each of his sons.

As a rule, however, van der Heide seem to have added more individuality to his portraits and less emotionally overstated.

[4] Works attributable to van der Heide include altarpieces in Brændekilde church, Denmark[5] and in Saaremaa Museum, Estonia (previously in Kaarma church);[6] the Saint George and the Dragon group currently in the St. Anne's Museum, Lübeck;[2][4] a sculpture of St. Jerome in Vadstena Abbey, Sweden;[4] a sculpted head of St. John the Baptist currently in the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities,[7] and others.