HERLIN (or HERLEN), FRIEDRICH, of Nordlingen, German artist, the most distinguished member of a family of painters of the Swabian school, in the 15th century. His name occurs in the archives of Nordlingen from 1461 until his death in 1491. In 1467 he was made citizen and town painter at Nord lingen, "because of his acquaintance with Flemish methods of painting." One of the first of his acknowledged productions is a shrine on one of the altars of the church of Rothenburg on the Tauber, the wings of which were finished in 1466, with seven scenes from the lives of Christ and the Virgin Mary. In the town hall of Rothenburg is a Madonna and St. Catherine of 1467. In the church of Bopfingen portions of an altarpiece of 1472 repre senting the "Nativity" and the "Adoration of the Magi" and "Scenes from the life of St. Blasius"; and in the town hall of Nordlingen a triptych of 1488, representing the "Nativity" and "Christ amidst the Doctors," at the side of a votive Madonna attended by St. Luke and St. Margaret as patrons of the painter's family. In each of these works the painter's name certifies the picture, and the manner is that of a pupil of van der Weyden. Herlin's epitaph, preserved by Rathgeber, states that he died on Oct. 12, 1491, and was buried at Nordlingen.