Henning von der Heyde

Abstract

Summary Henning von der Heyde, a painter and sculptor in wood, since 1487 mentioned in Lübeck, where he died in 1520, has already been a subject for research by Paatz, Heise a. o. (v. the foot‐notes). Though producing a number of sound individual observations, these researches have not led to any definite results. The artist has been confused with Bernt Notke, who may have been his teacher for some time, and with his own son, who had the same Christian name. The present author attributes to Henning the Elder the works reproduced in the preceding pages. The most important of them are the illustrations in the famous Lübeck Bible (most of them for the Pentateuch) and other Lübeck prints. A frequently made statement that the artist also had something to do with a certain edition of Terence published in Lyon and with a “Defensorium inviolatae virginitatis” of Basel is here refuted. The painting reproduced in fig. 13 is not by Henning von der Heydes own hand but by a pupil, working in the master's style. Other works by Henning von der Heyde mentioned and reproduced elsewhere, and here accepted as such, are those referred to in an article by Thorlacius‐Ussing (v. foot‐note 5, p. 2) and in a former article by the present author in this journal (Konsthistorisk Tidskrift, 1932, p. 97–102). The author further attributes to Henning von der Heyde the Younger the equestrian statue of St. George in the museum of Lübeck, published by Goldschmidt (v. foot‐note 1, p. 2) and Roosval (“Nya Sankt Görans studier”), also a head of St. John in the church of Norrby (published by Paatz in “Fornvännen”, 1929).