St. Anne's Museum Quarter, Lübeck
St. Anne's Museum Quarter was previously an Augustinian nunnery, St. Anne's Priory. Since 1915 it has housed St. Anne's Museum, one of Lübeck's museums of art and cultural history containing Germany's largest collection of medieval sculpture and altar-pieces, including the famous altars by Hans Memling, Bernt Notke, Hermen Rode, Jacob van Utrecht and Benedikt Dreyer.
St. Anne's Museum
The new Kunsthalle seen through the old church portal
Entrance of the Museumsquartier
The burning of the St.-Annen-Kloster in 1843
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. 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. Memling's religious works often incorporated donor portraits of the clergymen, aristocrats, and burghers who were his patrons. These portraits built upon the styles which Memling learned in his youth.
Memling's Self-Portrait at National Gallery, London
Last Judgement, 1466–1473. National Museum, Gdańsk
Scenes from the Passion of Christ, c. 1470, Galleria Sabauda
Triptych of Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation (front) c. 1485 Oil on oak panel, 22 × 13 cm (each wing) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg