short biography

Hugo van der Goes (b. around 1440, Ghent; d. 1482, Brussels/Roodendale Monastery) was the most important Dutch artist of the second half of the 15th century. He was the main master of the Old Netherlandish painting. In 1467 he became a master in the Painter's Guild Lucas in Ghent. Albrecht Dürer called him a "great master".
In 1475 he became a monk in the Augustinian Roodendale Monastery where he painted most of his surviving works. In the monastery he was suddenly stricken with a mental illness and tried to take his own life.
Later, van der Goes was therefore considered the prototype of the "mad genius" with whom Vincent van Gogh also identified.

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collection/s

Groeningemuseum, Brugge Kulturforum Berlin/Gemäldegalerie/Kunstbibliothek/Kupferstichkabinett ' Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museo de Bellas Artes, Valencia Museo di San Marco, Florence Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon Scottish National Galleries, Edinburgh Städel Museum, Frankfurt Uffizi Galleries, Florence Walters Art Museum, Baltimore .
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