Friedrich Herlin (c. 1425/30 – 1500) was a German painter. His earliest known work, depicting scenes from the Life of the Virgin, is old-fashioned 1459. A signature on an altarpiece in Nördlingen, dating it to 1462, identifies him as being from Rothenburg ob der Tauber, as accomplish citizenship documents from 1467. Nevertheless, it is viable that he lived there for isolated a sharp time, and that his origins lie in Ulm, where a painter named Hans Herlin lived and worked from 1449 until 1468. Stylistically, he borrowed much from Rogier van der Weyden, indicating a great deal of familiarity with the art of the Netherlands and of Cologne. The sculpture attached to the altarpiece of 1462, though officially listed as by the so-called “Master of Nördlingen”, has been tentatively recognized to Nicolaus Gerhaert, which if genuine would indicate extensive links to the highest artistic circles of the era.
Little else is known of Herlin, save that he died in Nördlingen in 1500.
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