Artist: Lucas Cranach (1472 - 1553)
Nationality: German
Movement: German School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Lucas Cranach was born in Kronach, Germany, where his father trained him in draughtsmanship. He was appointed court painter in Wittenberg in 1504 by the Elector of Saxony and afterwards designed altarpieces, created woodcuts, and engraved coins. He also painted portraits of Netherlands royalty, Emperor Maximilian and son Charles V in 1509. Cranach was an advocate of the Reformation, painting a portrait of its forerunner, Martin Luther. Cranach was one of the most famous German artists of its time.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Lucas Cranach the Younger, Portrait of a Man, 1545
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Adam and Eve in Paradise, 1509
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Temptation of St. Anthony, 1506
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Lucas Cranach the Younger, St. John in a Landscape, 1540
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Lucas Cranach the Younger, St. John in a Landscape, 1540
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Lucas Cranach the Younger, St. Peter, 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Younger, St. Luke, 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Capture of Christ, 1509
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, St. Barbara, 15th - 16th century
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Portrait of a Man, 1537 Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, 1472-1553); School of
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Judith with the Head of Holofernes, ca. 1530 Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, 1472-1553)Oil on
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Lamentation, 15th - 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Resurrection, 15th - 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Crucifixion, 15th - 16th century
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Pietro Antonio Pazzi, Portrait of a Man, after Lucas Cranach, 18th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, 15th - 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Holy Kinship, 15th - 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Martyrdom of James the Less, 15th - 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Martyrdom of St. John, 15th - 16th century
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Study of a Lion
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Christ Before Annas, 15th - 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Christ Before Herod, 15th - 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Christ Before Herod, 15th - 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Christ Before Caiaphas, 15th - 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Younger, Philip Melanchthon, full-length towards the right, 1561
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Christ Before Annas, 15th - 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Christ Before Caiaphas, 15th - 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Younger, Martin Luther, full-length to the right, 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Christ and the Woman of Samaria, 15th - 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Christ Bearing the Cross, 15th - 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Christ on the Mount of Olives, 15th - 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Christ Scourged (The Flagellation), 15th - 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pilate Washing his Hands, 15th - 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Frederick the Wise and John the Constant of Saxony, 1509
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Christ Scourged (The Flagellation), 15th - 16th century
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Christ Scourged (The Flagellation), 15th - 16th century
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Frederick III (1463-1525), the Wise, Elector of Saxony, 1533 Attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, St. James Minor, 15th - 16th century
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Samson and Delilah Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, 1472-1553)Oil on wood; 22 1/2 x 14
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, St. George on Horseback Slaying the Dragon, 15th - 16th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (7)
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Indianapolis Museum of Art: Museum Receives Major Old Master Collection
The Clowes Collection, assembled in the 1930s, 40s and 50s by George H. A. Clowes, is one of the finest private collections of Old Master art ever formed in the Midwest, said IMA director Bret Waller. The Clowes Collection includes paintings ...
National Galery of Art: From Schongauer to Holbein: Master Drawings from Basel and Berlin
The exhibition is made possible by UBS AG. The Gallery has long been devoted to collecting and exhibiting early German and Swiss art, and this rich and varied showing o...
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: The Power of Appearances: Renaissance and Reformation Portrait Prints
The exhibition of 62 prints is organized by the National Lending Service of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. It will comprise prints ranging in date from 1500 to 1601. Together, they suggest that the portrait is inextricable from its so...
Portland Museum of Art: German Expressionist Graphics: The Bradford Collection
The Bradford collection features the work of 16 artists, including self-portraits by Max Beckmann in drypoint, lithography, and woodcut, monumental etchings from Käthe Kollwitz's series on the Peasant War, and prints by Otto Dix that convey the de...
Cleveland Museum of Art: From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints
The finest impressions by Rembrandt (1606–1669), one of the most experimental and greatest printmakers, are now exceedingly rare, so that it is important to take advantage when an opportunity appears. A beautiful impression of The ...
Haus der Kunst: Masterpieces from Fra Angelico to Bonnard The Collection Dr. Gustav Rau
After the exhibition in Paris and Cologne, this priceless collection is now to be seen in its noticeably enlarged form in Haus der Kunst. A selection of 100 paintings demonstrates in an exemplary manner the development of European painting from th...
Guggenheim Museum: Kunsthistorisches Museum, State Hermitage Museum, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Sign Tri-Lateral Agreement in Vienna for the Development of Long- Term Collaborative Programs
The tri-lateral agreement will establish a new level of international collaboration. The broad strategic objectives of the alliance are: to expand international cultural relations; to make each museum's collections accessible to broader audienc...

Further Artwork and Information:

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Wittenberg, Lucas Cranach der Ältere
Lucas Cranach the Elder Online
Lucas Cranach the Younger - Olgas Gallery
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach, ein Künstler der Reformation
Lucas Cranach the Elder - Olgas Gallery
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