Derick Baegert

The recorded working language is Middle High German and German. The field of work recorded is painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Wesel. Work by Derick Baegert is recorded in the collections of Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Bavarian State Painting Collections and Dallas Museum of Art.

Derick Baegert was probably born in Wesel around 1435-1440 to Johan Baegert, a merchant, and Mechtelt Mynreman. While his family wasn't very wealthy, Derick ended his life as one of the richer people of Wesel, living in a grand house on the Brückstrasse in the old town of Wesel. Painter Jan Baegert, in earlier literature named the Master of Cappenberg, was his son, and Jan Joest, who may have been his nephew, and the Master of the Schermbecker Altar were probably some of his pupils. Apart from some works for the city and churches of Wesel (including the retable for the Mathenachurch, largely destroyed in the Second World War), he also painted large altarpieces for churches like the Propsteichurch in Dortmund, and works for private devotion.

• Illustration — Christ Carrying the Cross and Veronica with the Sudarium, 1477-1478, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid • Illustration — Knights and Soldiers playing Dice for Christ's Robe, part of the polyptych in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum • Illustration — Saint Luke Painting the Virgin, ca. 1470, Westfalisches Landesmuseum, Münster • Illustration — Oath taking in courtroom, 1493/94, Städtische Museum Wesel • Illustration — Washing the hands of Pilatus, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg • Illustration — Descent from the Cross, in the Dallas Museum of Art

The authorities additionally record the headings Derick Boegert, Derick Baeghert, Heinrich Duenwege and Derick Boghert. His recorded languages were Middle High German and German. One child is recorded: Jan Baegert.