Wilm Dedeke was a late gothic painter from Northern Germany

Northern Germany

- Geography :The key terrain features of North Germany are the marshes along the coastline of the North Sea and Baltic Sea, and the geest and heaths inland. Also prominent are the low hills of the Baltic Uplands, the ground moraines, end moraines, sandur, glacial valleys, bogs, and Luch...

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Dedeke completed the Altar of St. Luke (Lukas-Altar) at the Hamburg Mariendom in 1499 for the Hamburg Guild of Saint Luke

Guild of Saint Luke

The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Evangelist Luke, the patron saint of artists, who was identified by John of Damascus as having painted the...

. It had been left unfinished by his late colleagues Hinrik Bornemann

Hinrik Bornemann

Hinrik Bornemann was a Northern German Late Gothic painter. He was the son of Hans Bornemann, who died in 1474. After his father's death his mother was thrice remarried to painters- to Hinrik Funhof , to Absolon Stumme , and then finally to Wilm Dedeke...

 and Absolon Stumme

Absolon Stumme

Absolon Stumme was a Late Gothic painter from Northern Germany who worked in Hamburg.Absolon Stumme married into the Bornemann family of artists, becoming the second stepfather of Hinrik Bornemann, who died the same year as he did. After their deaths the Hamburg Cathedral altarpiece, upon which...

; Dedeke married the widow of the latter man. In 1502 he attained the title of Master of the Brotherhood of St. Thomas.

Works

• Wings of the Altar of the Brotherhood of Corpus Christi (1496) from the Cloisters in Lübeck
  Lübeck
  The Hanseatic City of Lübeck is the second-largest city in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany, and one of the major ports of Germany. It was for several centuries the "capital" of the Hanseatic League and, because of its Brick Gothic architectural heritage, is listed by UNESCO as a World...
  
  , today in the St. Annen Museum
  St. Annen Museum
  The monastery of Saint Annen in Lübeck-Germany is a former monastery of the Augustinians. It is now part of the Lübeck's museum for history of art and culture...
  
  

• Shrine of St. Anne (c. 1500), also in the St. Annen Museum

• The Crucified Christ (c. 1500), from the St. Catherine's Church, Hamburg, now in the collection of the Kunsthalle Hamburg
  Kunsthalle Hamburg
  The Hamburger Kunsthalle is an art museum in Hamburg, Germany. The art museum focuses on painting in Hamburg in the 14th century, paintings by Dutch and Flemish artists of the 16th and 17th centuries, French and German paintings of the 19th century, modern, and contemporary art...
  
  

• Madonna with Child (c. 1500), St. Annen Museum.