State: Germany, Weimar Republic
Issuer: Reichsbank
Location of issue: Berlin
Date of issue: 16. Sept. 1922 AD., Third Issue 1922,
Value: 5000 Mark
Size: 130 x 90 mm
Material: paper
Watermark:
Serial : H – H (doubled on obverse) (all other observed letters: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K )
Serial no. : 256042
Signatures: (12)
Printer: Reichsdruckerei, Berlin (Germany)
Obv.: Fünftausend - 5000 / Mark / R/B/D / zahlt die Reichsbankhauptkasse …. , portrait of of a Man (with a Roman Medal) (the Florentine artist and moneyer Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli ?) by Hans Memling.
Rev.: M/5000 – M/5000 / Reichsbanknote / Fünftausend / Mark / H 256042 / …. , value and text in square ornaments.
References: Rosenberg R-76 ; World Paper Money P-77 .
Hans Memling (also spelled Memlinc; c. 1430 – 11 August 1494) was a German painter who moved to Flanders and worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. He was born in the Middle Rhine region, and probably spent his childhood in Mainz. He had moved to the Netherlands by 1465 and spent time in the Brussels workshop of Rogier van der Weyden. He was subsequently made a citizen of Bruges, where he became one of the leading artists, painting both portraits and diptychs for personal devotion and several large religious works, continuing the style he learned in his youth. He became very successful, and in 1480 was listed among the wealthiest citizens in a city tax list.
He married Anna de Valkenaere sometime between 1470 and 1480, and they had three children. Memling's art was rediscovered, and became very popular, in the 19th century. More on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Memling
The Portrait of a Man with a Roman Medal is a painting by the German-born Flemish artist Hans Memling, dating to c. 1480 and housed in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium.
The painting portrays a man from a three-quarter point of view, with an attention to details typical of Flemish painting. The man is wearing a black coat and a hat of the same color. In the left hand, he is showing a Roman medal of emperor Nero, a symbol of his attention to Humanism. In the background is a lake landscape: Memling was one of the first painters to use natural landscapes for backgrounds of portraits (instead of the traditional black one), influencing later Renaissance artists such as Sandro Botticelli and Pietro Perugino. The identity of the subject is unknown. It has been supposed that he could be one of the numerous Italians living at the time in Antwerp or Bruges, who often commissioned artworks to local painters. It has been variously identified as Bernardo Bembo, or with the Florentine artist Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli, who died in Lyon, where the painting was in the early 19th century. Or it may be Giovanni di Candida.
More on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_a_Man_with_a_Roman_Medal
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