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Lucas Cranach the Elder
b. 1472, Kronach, d. 1553, Weimar. German painter and printmaker. He took his name from the town of his birth. Little is known about his early life or training. In Vienna (c. 1501 ?C 04) he painted some notable portraits and landscapes characteristic of the Danube school. From 1505 to 1550 he was court painter in Wittenberg, where he achieved great success and wealth painting portraits, mythological subjects, and altarpieces for Protestant and Catholic churches. He attracted so many young artists to Wittenberg that the town became an art centre. A friend of Martin Luther, Cranach became known as the chief pictorial propagandist of the Protestant cause in Germany. He produced numerous engravings and more than 100 woodcuts, notably for the first German edition of the New Testament (1522). After his death, his style was perpetuated by his son, Lucas the Younger (1515 C 86).
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Painting ID:: 40996
Portrait of a woman
mk159
1526
Oil on canvsa
88.5x58.6cm
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Painting ID:: 40997
THe Virgin and Child under the Apple-tree
mk159
c.1525
Oil on canvas
transferred from panel
87x59cm
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Painting ID:: 49484
Payment
mk198
1532
108x119cm
Natinalmuseum,stockholm
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Painting ID:: 53761
Prinsessa of Saxony
mk234
about 1517
43x34cm
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Painting ID:: 53762
Korsfastelsescen with the conv hovitsmannen
mk234
1536
50x35cm
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Lucas Cranach the Elder
b. 1472, Kronach, d. 1553, Weimar. German painter and printmaker. He took his name from the town of his birth. Little is known about his early life or training. In Vienna (c. 1501 ?C 04) he painted some notable portraits and landscapes characteristic of the Danube school. From 1505 to 1550 he was court painter in Wittenberg, where he achieved great success and wealth painting portraits, mythological subjects, and altarpieces for Protestant and Catholic churches. He attracted so many young artists to Wittenberg that the town became an art centre. A friend of Martin Luther, Cranach became known as the chief pictorial propagandist of the Protestant cause in Germany. He produced numerous engravings and more than 100 woodcuts, notably for the first German edition of the New Testament (1522). After his death, his style was perpetuated by his son, Lucas the Younger (1515 C 86).
. Related Artists to Lucas Cranach the Elder: | Julien Hudson | Artist Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli | COXCIE, Raphael | Huldrych Zwingli | Gustaf Brandelius |
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