Notable Deaths on August 11

Q: Who died on August 11?

Notable people who died on August 11 include: Jia Xu, Magnentius, Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople, Rusticula, Dhuka al-Rumi.

Q: What is Hans Memling known for?

Hans Memling, German-Belgian painter (born 1430)

108 people 223 – 2025

August 11 has seen 108 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 223 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · August 11 — Wikipedia

1494 — Hans Memling

German-Belgian painter (born 1430)

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In 1465 he was made a citizen of Bruges, where he became one of the leading artists and the master of a large workshop

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A tax document from 1480 lists him among the wealthiest citizens

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Hans Memling was a German-Flemish painter who worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting

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Born in the Middle Rhine region, he probably spent his childhood in Mainz

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During his apprenticeship as a painter he moved to the Netherlands and spent time in the Brussels workshop of Rogier van der Weyden

Jia Xu

Chinese politician and strategist (born 147)

Jia Xu, courtesy name Wenhe, was an official of the state of Cao Wei during the early Three Kingdoms period of China. He started his career in the late Eastern Han dynasty as a minor official. In 189, when the warlord…

223

Magnentius

Roman usurper (born 303)

Magnus Magnentius was a Roman general and usurper against Constantius II. Of Germanic descent, Magnentius served with distinction in Gaul, where the army chose him as a replacement for the unpopular emperor Constans.…

353

Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople

Flavian of Constantinople, sometimes Flavian I, was Archbishop of Constantinople from 446 to 449. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church.

449

Rusticula

abbess of Arles

Rusticula, also called Marcia, was the abbess of Saint-Jean d'Arles from 575 until her death.

632

Dhuka al-Rumi

Abbasid governor of Egypt

Dhuka al-Rumi was a Byzantine Greek who served the Abbasid Caliphate as governor of Egypt in 915–919.

919

Gero

Count of Alsleben

Gero was a Count of Alsleben, conjectured to be the son of Siegfried and therefore grandson of Gero the Great. If so, his mother was Hedwig, daughter of Wichmann the Elder. Gero was the brother of Tetta, who established…

979

Byrhtnoth

English soldier (born 956)

Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, died at the Battle of Maldon. His name is composed of the Old English beorht (bright) and nōþ (courage). He is the subject of The Battle of Maldon, an Old English poem; J.R.R. Tolkien's…

991

Sokkate

king of the Pagan dynasty of Burma (born 1001)

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1044

Guttorm of Norway (born 1199)

Guttorm Sigurdsson was the king of Norway from January to August 1204, during the Norwegian civil war era. As a grandson of King Sverre, he was proclaimed king by the Birkebeiner faction when he was just four years old.…

1204

Clare of Assisi

Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (born 1194)

Chiara Offreduccio, known as Clare of Assisi, is an Italian saint who was one of the first followers of Francis of Assisi.

1253

Möngke Khan

Mongolian emperor (born 1208)

Möngke Khan was the fourth khagan of the Mongol Empire, ruling from 1 July 1251 to 11 August 1259. He was the first Khagan from the Toluid line, and made significant reforms to improve the administration of the Empire…

1259

Agnes of Faucigny

Dame ruler of Faucigny, Countess consort of Savoy

Agnes of Faucigny was suo jure ruling Dame of Faucigny from 1253, as well as countess consort of Savoy by marriage to Peter II, Count of Savoy.

1268

Domhnall II

Earl of Mar

Domhnall II, Earl of Mar was briefly Regent of Scotland during the minority of David II, King of Scotland.

1332

Robert II Keith

Marischal of Scotland

Sir Robert Keith was a Scottish knight, diplomat, and hereditary Marischal of Scotland who commanded forces loyal to Robert Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn.

1332

Thomas Randolph

2nd Earl of Moray

Thomas Randolph, 2nd Earl of Moray, a Scottish military commander, held his title for just 23 days.

1332

Murdoch III

Earl of Menteith

Muireadhach III, Earl of Menteith was a Scottish nobleman.

1332

Robert Bruce

Lord of Liddesdale

Sir Robert Bruce, Lord of Liddesdale was the illegitimate son of King Robert the Bruce and an unknown mother. He was knighted and awarded the royal arms at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. The youngest a man could be…

1332

John Hunyadi

Hungarian general and politician (born 1387)

John Hunyadi was a leading Hungarian military and political figure during the 15th century, who served as regent of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1446 to 1453, under the minor Ladislaus V.

1456

Nicholas of Cusa

German cardinal and mystic (born 1401)

Nicholas of Cusa, also referred to as Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Cusanus, was a German Catholic bishop and polymath active as a philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician, and astronomer. One of the first German…

1464

Kettil Karlsson

regent of Sweden and Bishop of Linköping (born 1433)

Kettil Karlsson (Vasa) (c. 1433 – 11 August 1465) was a Swedish clergyman, diplomat, military leader and statesman during the Kalmar Union era. He was a member of the house of Vasa. At age 25, he was elected Bishop of…

1465

William Waynflete

English Lord Chancellor and bishop of Winchester (born c. 1398)

William Waynflete, born William Patten, was Headmaster of Winchester College (1429–1441), Provost of Eton College (1442–1447), Bishop of Winchester (1447–1486) and Lord Chancellor of England (1456–1460). He founded…

1486

Johann Tetzel

German preacher (born 1465)

Johann Tetzel was a German Dominican friar and preacher. He was appointed Inquisitor for Poland and Saxony, later becoming the Grand Commissioner for indulgences in Germany. Tetzel was known for granting indulgences on…

1519

John Bell

English bishop

John Bell was a Bishop of Worcester (1539–1543), who served during the reign of Henry VIII of England.

1556

Bartolomé de Escobedo

Spanish composer and educator (born 1500)

Bartolomé de Escobedo was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance.

1563

Pedro Nunes

Portuguese mathematician and academic (born 1502)

Pedro Nunes was a Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor, probably from a New Christian family.

1578

Hamnet Shakespeare

son of William Shakespeare (born 1585)

Hamnet Shakespeare was the only son of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the fraternal twin of Judith Shakespeare. Hamnet died at the age of 11. Some Shakespearean scholars speculate on the relationship between…

1596

Lavinia Fontana

Italian painter (born 1552)

Lavinia Fontana was an Italian Mannerist painter active in Bologna and Rome. She is best known for her successful portraiture, but also worked in the genres of mythology and religious painting. She was trained by her…

1614

Ottavio Piccolomini

Austrian-Italian field marshal (born 1599)

Ottavio Piccolomini, 1st Duke of Amalfi was an Italian nobleman whose military career included service as a Spanish general and then as a field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire.

1656

Prince Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy (born 1723)

Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy was a prince of Savoy and Duke of Aosta. He was born in the reign of his grandfather Victor Amadeus II, King of Sardinia.

1725

Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche

French physician and author (born 1722)

Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche,, was a French writer.

1774

Henry James Pye

English poet and politician (born 1745)

Henry James Pye was an English poet, and Poet Laureate from 1790 until his death. His appointment as laureate owed nothing to poetic achievement and may have been awarded to him as compensation for the loss of his seat…

1813

Lorenz Oken

German botanist, biologist, and ornithologist (born 1779)

Lorenz Oken was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. He became a professor of natural history at the University of Jena and from 1833 at the newly founded University of Zurich. He founded the…

1851

Macedonio Melloni

Italian physicist and academic (born 1798)

Macedonio Melloni was an Italian physicist, notable for demonstrating that radiant heat has similar physical properties to those of light.

1854

Halfdan Kjerulf

Norwegian pianist and composer (born 1815)

Halfdan Kjerulf was a Norwegian composer.

1868

Lydia Koidula

Estonian poet and playwright (born 1843)

Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen, known by her pen name and sobriquet Lydia Koidula, was an Estonian poet. She is also frequently referred to as Koidulaulik.

1886

John Henry Newman

English cardinal and theologian (born 1801)

John Henry Newman was an English Catholic theologian, academic, philosopher, historian, writer, and poet. He was an important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century.

1890

Enrico Betti

Italian mathematician and academic (born 1813)

Enrico Betti Glaoui was an Italian mathematician, now remembered mostly for his 1871 paper on topology that led to the later naming after him of the Betti numbers. He worked also on the theory of equations, giving early…

1892

Eugenio María de Hostos

Puerto Rican-American sociologist, philosopher, and lawyer (born 1839)

Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla, known as El Gran Ciudadano de las Américas, was a Puerto Rican educator, philosopher, intellectual, lawyer, sociologist, novelist, and Puerto Rican independence advocate.

1903

Khudiram Bose

Indian Bengali revolutionary (born 1889)

Khudiram Bose was an Indian nationalist from Bengal Presidency who opposed British rule of India. For his role in the Muzaffarpur Conspiracy Case, along with Prafulla Chaki, he was sentenced to death, for the attempted…

1908

Andrew Carnegie

Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Carnegie Steel Company and Carnegie Hall (born 1835)

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late-19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.

1919

Mary Sumner

English philanthropist, founded the Mothers' Union (born 1828)

Mary Sumner was the founder of the Mothers' Union, a worldwide Anglican women's organisation. She is commemorated in a number of provinces of the Anglican Communion on 9 August.

1921

Blas Infante

Spanish historian and politician (born 1885)

Blas Infante Pérez de Vargas was an Andalusian socialist politician, Georgist, writer, historian and musicologist. He is considered the "father of Andalusia" by Andalusian nationalists.

1936

Edith Wharton

American novelist and short story writer (born 1862)

Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became…

1937

Jean Bugatti

German-Italian engineer (born 1909)

Jean Bugatti was a French automotive designer and test engineer for Bugatti. He was the son of Bugatti's founder Ettore Bugatti.

1939

Siegfried Flesch

Austrian fencer (born 1872)

Siegfried Friedrich "Fritz" Flesch was an Austrian sabre fencer who competed during the late 19th century and early 20th century.

1939

Stefan Jaracz

Polish actor and theater producer (born 1883)

Stefan Jaracz was a Polish actor and theater producer. He served as the artistic director of Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw during the interwar period (1930–32), and within a short period raised its reputation as one of the…

1945

Tazio Nuvolari

Italian race car driver and motorcycle racer (born 1892)

Tazio Giorgio Nuvolari was an Italian racing driver. He first raced motorcycles and then concentrated on sports cars and Grand Prix racing. Originally of Mantua, he was nicknamed il Mantovano Volante and Nuvola…

1953

Jackson Pollock

American painter (born 1912)

Paul Jackson Pollock was an American painter. A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, he was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal…

1956

Antanas Škėma

Lithuanian-American author, playwright, actor, and director (born 1910)

Antanas Škėma was a Lithuanian writer, playwright, stage actor and director. His best known work is the novel Balta drobulė.

1961

Otto Wahle

Austrian-American swimmer and coach (born 1879)

Otto Wahle was an Austrian-American swimmer who took part in two Summer Olympic Games and won a total of three medals. Wahle coached the men's US swim team at the 1912 Olympics, and the men's US water polo team at the…

1963

Bill Woodfull

Australian cricketer and educator (born 1897)

William Maldon Woodfull was an Australian cricketer of the 1920s and 1930s. He captained both Victoria and Australia, and was best known for his dignified and moral conduct during the tumultuous bodyline series in…

1965

Miriam Licette

English soprano and educator (born 1885)

Miriam Licette was an English operatic soprano whose career spanned 35 years, from the mid-1910s to after World War II. She was also a singing teacher, and created the Miriam Licette Scholarship.

1969

Max Theiler

South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)

Max Theiler was a South African-American virologist and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever in 1937, becoming the first African-born…

1972

Vicente Emilio Sojo

Venezuelan conductor and composer (born 1887)

Vicente Emilio Sojo was a Venezuelan musicologist, educator and composer, born in Guatire, Miranda.

1974

Frederic Calland Williams

British co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube, used for memory in early computer systems (born 1911)

Sir Frederic Calland Williams,, known as F.C. Williams or Freddie Williams, was an English engineer, a pioneer in radar and computer technology.

1977

Berta Ruck

Indian-born Welsh romance novelist (born 1878)

Amy Roberta (Berta) Ruck was a prolific Welsh writer of over 90 romance novels from 1905 to 1972. She also wrote short stories, an autobiography and two books of memoirs. Her married name was Mrs Oliver Onions from 1909…

1978

J. G. Farrell

English author (born 1935)

James Gordon Farrell was an English-born novelist of Irish descent. He gained prominence for a series of novels known as "the Empire Trilogy", which deal with the political and human consequences of British colonial…

1979

Paul Robert

French lexicographer and publisher (born 1910)

Paul Charles Jules Robert was a French lexicographer and publisher, best known for his large Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française (1953), often called simply the Robert, and its abridgement,…

1980

Tom Drake

American actor and singer (born 1918)

Tom Drake was an American actor. Drake made films starting in 1940 and continuing until the mid-1970s, and also made TV acting appearances.

1982

Alfred A. Knopf Sr.

American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (born 1892)

Alfred Abraham Knopf Sr. was an American publisher of the 20th century, and co-founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. His contemporaries included the likes of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, and Frank Nelson Doubleday, J.…

1984

Paul Felix Schmidt

Estonian–American chemist and chess player (born 1916)

Paul Felix Schmidt was an Estonian and German chess player, writer and chemist.

1984

János Drapál

Hungarian motorcycle racer (born 1948)

János Drapál was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Budapest. He had little chance to race in the Grand Prix world championships during the Cold War, but still won four Grand Prix races. Drapál had his best year in…

1986

Anne Ramsey

American actress (born 1929)

Anne Ramsey-Mobley was an American actress. She was best known for her film roles as Mama Fratelli in The Goonies (1985) and as Mrs. Lift in Throw Momma from the Train (1987), the latter of which earned her nominations…

1988

John Meillon

Australian actor (born 1934)

John Meillon was an Australian character actor known for dramatic as well as comedy roles. He portrayed Walter Reilly in the films Crocodile Dundee and Crocodile Dundee II. He also voiced advertisements for Victoria…

1989

J. D. McDuffie

American race car driver (born 1938)

John Delphus McDuffie Jr. was an American racing driver. He competed in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series from 1963 to 1991, collecting 106 Top 10 finishes during his career, despite never finishing on the lead lap of any…

1991

Peter Cushing

English actor (born 1913)

Peter Wilton Cushing was an English actor. His acting career spanned over six decades and included appearances in more than 100 films, as well as many television, stage and radio roles. He achieved recognition for his…

1994

Phil Harris

American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1904)

Wonga Philip "Phil" Harris was an American actor, comedian, bandleader, and musician. He was an orchestra leader and a pioneer in radio situation comedy, first with The Jack Benny Program, then in The Phil Harris-Alice…

1995

Rafael Kubelík

Czech conductor and composer (born 1914)

Rafael Jeroným Kubelík, KBE was a Czech conductor and composer.

1996

Ambrosio Padilla

Filipino basketball player and politician (born 1910)

Ambrosio "Paddy" Bibby Padilla was a Filipino basketball player, lawyer, and an elected member of the Senate of the Philippines. He was one of the most important figures in Asian basketball development.

1996

Jean Papineau-Couture

Canadian composer and academic (born 1916)

Jean Papineau-Couture, was a Canadian composer and academic.

2000

Percy Stallard

English cyclist and coach (born 1909)

Percy Thornley Stallard was an English racing cyclist who reintroduced massed-start road racing on British roads in the 1940s.

2001

Galen Rowell

American photographer and mountaineer (born 1940)

Galen Avery Rowell was an American wilderness photographer, adventure photojournalist and mountaineer. Born in Oakland, California, he became a full-time photographer in 1972.

2002

Armand Borel

Swiss-American mathematician and academic (born 1923)

Armand Borel was a Swiss mathematician, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, and was a permanent professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States from 1957 to 1993. He worked in algebraic…

2003

Herb Brooks

American ice hockey player and coach (born 1937)

Herbert Paul Brooks was an American ice hockey player and coach. His most notable achievement came in 1980 as head coach of the gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic team at Lake Placid. At the Games, Brooks' American team…

2003

Mike Douglas

American singer and talk show host (born 1920)

Michael Delaney Dowd Jr., known as Mike Douglas, was an American big band singer, entertainer, television talk show host of The Mike Douglas Show, and actor.

2006

George Furth

American actor and playwright (born 1932)

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2008

Dursun Karataş

founding leader of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front (DHKP-C) in Turkey (born 1952)

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2008

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

American activist, founded the Special Olympics (born 1921)

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2009

James Mourilyan Tanner

British paediatric endocrinologist (born 1920)

James Mourilyan Tanner was a British paediatric endocrinologist who was best known for his development of the Tanner scale, which measures the stages of sexual development during puberty. He was a professor emeritus of…

2010

Red Bastien

American wrestler, trainer, and promoter (born 1931)

Rolland "Red" Bastien was an American professional wrestler best known for his time in Capital Wrestling Corporation where he was a three-time WWWF United States Tag Team Champion with his kayfabe brother, Lou Bastien.

2012

Michael Dokes

American boxer (born 1958)

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2012

Lucy Gallardo

Argentinian-Mexican actress and screenwriter (born 1929)

Lucy Gallardo was an Argentine-born Mexican actress and screenwriter. She was best known for her numerous roles in Mexican cinema, as well as Mexico's telenovelas. Gallardo was the widow of Mexican actor Enrique Rambal.

2012

Raymond Delisle

French cyclist (born 1943)

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2013

Zafar Futehally

Indian ornithologist and author (born 1919)

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2013

David Howard

English ballet dancer and educator (born 1937)

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2013

Vladimir Beara

Croatian footballer and manager (born 1928)

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2014

Raymond Gravel

Canadian priest and politician (born 1952)

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2014

Kika Szaszkiewiczowa

Polish author and blogger (born 1917)

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2014

Robin Williams

American actor and comedian (born 1951)

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2014

Sam Hall

American diver, legislator, and mercenary (born 1937)

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2014

Serge Collot

French viola player and educator (born 1923)

Serge Collot was a French violist and music educator.

2015

Harald Nielsen

Danish footballer and manager (born 1941)

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2015

Richard Oriani

Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (born 1920)

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2015

Yisrael Kristal

Polish-Israeli supercentenarian; oldest living Holocaust survivor and one of the ten oldest men ever (born 1903)

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2017

Segun Bucknor

Nigerian musician and journalist (born 1946)

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2017

V S Naipaul

British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932)

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2018

Terry A. Davis

American computer programmer, creator of TempleOS (born 1969)

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2018

Sergio Obeso Rivera

Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1931)

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2019

Trini Lopez

American singer and guitarist (born 1937)

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2020

Sumner Redstone

American billionaire businessman (born 1923)

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2020

Anne Heche

American actress (born 1969)

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2022

Hanae Mori

Japanese fashion designer (born 1926)

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2022

Mike Ahern

Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Queensland (born 1942)

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2023

Ángel Salazar

Cuban-American comedian and actor (born 1956)

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2024

Noël Treanor

Irish Roman Catholic prelate (born 1950)

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2024

Miguel Uribe Turbay

Colombian precandidate to presidency (born 1986)

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2025

Danielle Spencer

American actress (born 1965)

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2025

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Hans Memling — German-Flemish painter (c. 1430–1494)

FeaturedHans Memling

Death year1494

Known forBorn in the Middle Rhine region, he probably spent his childhood in Mainz

Deaths on this date108 (223 – 2025)

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1494 — Hans Memling

In 1465 he was made a citizen of Bruges, where he became one of the leading artists and the master of a large workshop

A tax document from 1480 lists him among the wealthiest citizens

Hans Memling was a German-Flemish painter who worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting

Born in the Middle Rhine region, he probably spent his childhood in Mainz

During his apprenticeship as a painter he moved to the Netherlands and spent time in the Brussels workshop of Rogier van der Weyden

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