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Albertus Pictor

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Albertus Pictor is recorded in the Getty Union List of Artist Names with the biographical note: German-Swedish painter, ca. 1440-after 1509. The record places the birth in Immenhausen. Getty classifies the person under these roles: painter, textile designer, fresco painter. The nationality terms attached to the record are German Swedish Scandinavian. The record carries 13 forms of the name and the identifier 500020922. In this atlas the person is linked as the creator of Death Playing Chess.

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Albertus Pictor (German-Swedish painter, ca. 1440-after 1509)

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Albertus Pictor (German-Swedish painter, ca. 1440-after 1509)

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Born: Immenhausen (Hessen state, Germany) (inhabited place)
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    Albertus Pictor (German-Swedish painter, ca. 1440-after 1509)
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Albertus Pictor (Wikipedia)
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Albertus Pictor (English, "Albert the Painter"; Immenhusen, c. 1440, c. 1507), also called Albert Pictor, Albert Målare and Albrekt Pärlstickare (Swedish), is the most famous late medieval Swedish painter, known for his wallpaintings surviving in numerous churches in southern and central Sweden.
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Death Playing Chess (Wikipedia)
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It was painted around 1480-1490, by the Swedish medieval painter Albertus Pictor.
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