This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia. Friar Francke (also: Frater Francke, Meister Francke, * circa 1383 in the Lower Rhine region (Germany); † ca. A Friar is a member of one of the Mendicant orders. Friars and monks Friars differ from Monks in that they are called to a life of poverty in service Lower Rhine region or Niederrhein is a region around the river Rhine in Germany between approximately Neuss and Düsseldorf and the 1436 in Hamburg) was an altarpiece painter. Hamburg (English, German: ˈhambʊɐk local pronunciation Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg) is the second-largest city in Germany An altarpiece is a picture or Relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the Altar of a church
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Geißelung der heiligen Barbara from the altar of Barbara(before 1424)
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Martertod des hl. Thomas von Canterbury from the altar of Thomas (ca. 1424)
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Der Schmerzensmann (ca. 1430)
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