Career
Little is known about van der Heide"s personal life. He was trained in the workshop of Bernt Notke (and worked with him on his famous Saint George and the Dragon statue in Stockholm) and seem to have lived and worked in Lübeck, present-day Germany. In 1513 he was made alderman at the guild of painters.
As a rule, however, van der Heide seem to have added more individuality to his portraits and less emotionally overstated.
Works attributable to van der Heide include altarpieces in Brændekilde church, Denmark and in Saaremaa Museum, Estonia (previously in Kaarma church). The Saint George and the Dragon group currently in the Saint Anne"s Museum, Lübeck.
A sculpture of Saint Jerome in Vadstena Abbey, Sweden. A sculpted head of Saint John the Baptist currently in the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, and others