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Herlin, Friedrich
(b c. 1425/30; d Nördlingen, 1500). German painter and altarpiece contractor. His earliest surviving work, two wings from an altarpiece with scenes from the Life of the Virgin (Munich, Bayer. Nmus.; Nördlingen, Stadtmus.), is dated 1459. Although a signature on an altarpiece (1462; Nördlingen, Stadtmus.) and Nördlingen citizenship documents (1467) identified him as Friedrich Herlin from Rothenburg, he may have lived there only temporarily and was possibly born in Ulm, where a painter named Hans Herlin was active from 1449 to 1468. Friedrich Herlin’s borrowings from Rogier van der Weyden, particularly from the Columba Altarpiece (c. 1455; Munich, Alte Pin.), already explicit in the panels for the Nördlingen altarpiece of 1462, suggest he had visited Cologne and the Netherlands during his formative years. Since the rediscovery (1971) of the date 1462 on that altarpiece (ex-St Georg, Nördlingen; wings, Nördlingen, Stadtmus.; sculpture in situ but in Baroque setting from 1683), its sculpture has been attributed to Nicolaus Gerhaert, suggesting that Herlin’s contacts reached to the Rhineland and to one of the foremost sculptors of his time.
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