Hinrik Funhof

German artist
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroGerman artist
A.K.A.Heinrich Vonhoff Heinrich Fonhave Hinrik Funghoff Heinrich Funghoff Hinrich Funghoff Heinrich Funhof
A.K.A.Heinrich Vonhoff Heinrich Fonhave Hinrik Funghoff Heinrich Funghoff Hinrich Funghoff Heinrich Funhof
PlacesGermany
isPainter
Work fieldArts
Gender
Male
DeathHamburg
The details

Biography

Hinrik Funhof (d. 1485, also spelled Henrik Funhof) was a late Gothic painter who lived and worked in Hamburg. After the death of his colleague Hans Bornemann in 1475, he took over Bornemann's studio and married his widow. When Funhof died ten years later, she remarried to another Hamburg painter, Absolon Stumme.

Works

Only a few of his works survive, namely:

  • The Virgin Mary with Headdress (ca. 1480, DE: Maria mit Ährenkleid), in the collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • The Marriage at Cana (ca. 1481, DE: Hochzeit zu Kana, in a private collection.
  • The outer sides of the wings of the 1482 Altarpiece in St. John's Church, Lüneburg

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