Hl. Paulus Rückseite: Hl. Reinoldus

Conrad von Soest was the dominant painter in Westphalia around 1400 and one of the most refined exponents of the International Gothic style in Germany. This double-sided panel showing Saints Paul and Reinoldus on its respective faces suggests it functioned as a processional or moveable devotional object. Saint Reinoldus was the patron saint of Dortmund, connecting the panel to the civic religious culture of that city. Conrad's style synthesises the courtly elegance of the Burgundian International Gothic with a distinctly German emotional directness, visible in the simplified faces and concentrated figural presence.

Conrad works in the mixed technique of the early fifteenth century, with tempera and oil-based media combined over a chalk ground. Both surfaces of the panel preserve much of their original gilding, and the drapery rendering shows the characteristic broken, stylised folds of the International Gothic northern school. Punched and tooled haloes indicate high workshop quality.