The Good Centurion

A contemporary of Johann Koerbecke, Derick Baegert was the leading 15th-century artist in the Lower Rhine area and in the city of Wesel where he was possibly born and where he worked.
The first known reference to Baegert dates from 1476 in Wesel and relates to a standard commissioned by the City Council. Little is known of the early training of this artist who had a
workshop in which his son Jan…