# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-memling
# Generated: 2026-09-02T00:25:13.906Z

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name: "Hans Memling"
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description: "A German-born painter who moved to Bruges and became one of its wealthiest citizens by the 1480s, Memling ran a large workshop turning out religious commissions thick with donor portraits — the bankers and clergy who paid him inserted right into the frame."
tagline: "German/Flemish painter (c. 1430–1494)"
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birthDate: "1435"
deathDate: "1494-08-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 1430 in the Middle Rhine, probably raised in Mainz, Memling trained in the Brussels workshop of Rogier van der Weyden before settling in Bruges in 1465 as a new citizen. There he built a workshop that served the city's ruling class: his altarpieces and devotional panels wove patron portraits — clergymen, aristocrats, merchants — directly into sacred scenes, a technique rooted in the Early Netherlandish tradition he'd absorbed as an apprentice. By 1480 a tax roll named him among Bruges' richest residents. He married Anna de Valkenaere and fathered three children; he died in August 1494. Two centuries of obscurity followed, then the 19th century pulled him back into view.