Lucas Cranach the Elder (German: Lucas Cranach der Ältere [ˈluːkas ˈkʁaːnax deːɐ̯ ˈʔɛltəʁə] ; c. 1472 – 16 October 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving . He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German princes and those of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation , whose cause he embraced with enthusiasm. He was a close friend of Martin Luther . Cranach also painted religious subjects, first in the Catholic tradition, and later trying to find new ways of conveying Lutheran religious concerns in art. He continued throughout his career to paint nude subjects drawn from mythology and religion .
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96-557: A Cranach painting of Saint Christopher. The museum hired a private provenance researcher, Laurie Stein, to investigate the circumstance of the sale in 1934, and she concluded that the Cranach had not been sold under duress by the Jewish owners. In April 2021 Cranach's "The Resurrection" was sold at auction following a settlement between the heirs of Holocaust victim Margarete Eisenmann and the art dealer Eugene Thaw . After being looted,
144-556: A Crucifixion scene in the centre which is now in the Kreuzkirche, Hanover . Towards the end of his life, after Luther's initial hostility to large public religious images had softened, Cranach painted a number of "Lutheran altarpieces" of the Last Supper and other subjects, in which Christ was shown in a traditional manner, including a halo , but the apostles, without halos, were portraits of leading reformers. He also produced
192-518: A dying man offers "his soul to God, his body to earth, and his worldly goods to his relations", the soul rises to meet the Trinity in heaven, and salvation is clearly shown to depend on faith and not on good works. Other works of this period deal with sin and divine grace . One shows Adam sitting between John the Baptist and a prophet at the foot of a tree. To the left God produces the tables of
240-578: A great Christian on April 6 along with Dürer, and possibly Grünewald or Burgkmair. The oldest extant picture by Cranach is the Rest of the Virgin during the Flight into Egypt , of 1504. The painting already shows remarkable skill and grace, and the pine forest in the background shows a painter familiar with the mountain scenery of Thuringia . There is more forest gloom in landscapes of a later time. Following
288-554: A house at Gotha, but most likely he got to know Barbara near Wittenberg, where her family also owned a house, which later also belonged to Cranach. Cranach had two sons, both artists: Hans Cranach , whose life is obscure and who died in Bologna in 1537; and Lucas Cranach the Younger , born in 1515, who died in 1586. He also had three daughters. One of them was Barbara Cranach, who died in 1569, married Christian Brück (Pontanus), and
336-645: A number of violent anti-Catholic and anti-Papacy propaganda prints in a cruder style. His best known work in this vein was a series of prints for the pamphlet Passional Christi und Antichristi , where scenes from the Passion of Christ were matched by a print mocking practices of the Catholic clergy, so that Christ driving the money-changers from the Temple was matched by the Pope, or Antichrist , signing indulgences over
384-546: A painting of him. The Dukes became noted collectors of Cranach's work, some of which remains in the family collection at Callenberg Castle . The death in 1525 of the Elector Frederick the Wise and Elector John 's in 1532 brought no change in Cranach's position; he remained a favourite with John Frederick I , under whom he twice (1531 and 1540) filled the office of burgomaster of Wittenberg . In 1547, John Frederick
432-580: A symbol of the new faith. Cranach made numerous portraits of Luther, and provided woodcut illustrations for Luther's German translation of the Bible . Somewhat later the duke conferred on him the monopoly of the sale of medicines at Wittenberg, and a printer's patent with exclusive privileges as to copyright in Bibles . Cranach's presses were used by Martin Luther. His apothecary shop was open for centuries, and
480-526: A table spread with cash (see gallery below). Some of the prints were echoed by paintings, such as his Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1517). One of his last works is the altarpiece, completed after his death by Lucas Cranach the Younger in 1555, for the Stadtkirche (city church) at Weimar . The iconography is original and unusual: Christ is shown twice, to the left trampling on Death and Satan, to
528-505: A transparent drape or a large hat. These are mostly in narrow upright formats; examples are several of Venus , alone or with Cupid , who has sometimes stolen a honeycomb, and complains to Venus that he has been stung by a bee (Weimar, 1530; Berlin, 1534). Other such subjects are the Three Graces , Diana with Apollo , shooting a bow, and Hercules sitting at the spinning-wheel mocked by Omphale and her maids. A similar approach
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#1732787702112576-549: Is characteristic of Cranach's prolific output, and a proof that he used a large workshop, that he received payment at Wittenberg in 1533 for "sixty pairs of portraits of the elector and his brother" on one day. Inevitably the quality of such works is variable. Cranach's religious subjects reflect the development of the Protestant Reformation , and its attitudes to religious images. In his early career, he painted several Madonnas; his first woodcut (1505) represents
624-404: Is closed on Tuesday. It is open Friday from 10 am to 10 pm and Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm. Art after Dark occurs on Friday nights. The ground-level galleries showcase contemporary and 20th-century American and European art and a comprehensive collection of Chinese works. On the top floor of the museum, there are noteworthy paintings by late Medieval Italian painter Jacopo Da Firenze, Lucas Cranach
672-526: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Norton Museum of Art The Norton Museum of Art is an art museum in West Palm Beach, Florida . The museum has a collection that includes over 8,200 works, with a concentration in European , American , and Chinese art as well as in contemporary art and photography . In 2003, it overtook
720-554: Is of portraits, and it is chiefly thanks to him that we know what the German Reformers and their princely adherents looked like. He painted not only Martin Luther himself but also Luther's wife, mother and father. He also depicted leading Catholics like Albert of Brandenburg , archbishop elector of Mainz , Anthony Granvelle and the Duke of Alva . A dozen likenesses of Frederick III and his brother John are dated 1532. It
768-727: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art , in Sarasota , to become the largest museum in Florida. The Norton Museum of Art was founded in 1941 by Ralph Hubbard Norton (1875–1953) and his first wife, Elizabeth Calhoun Norton (1881–1947). Norton, the former head of the Chicago -based Acme Steel Co., moved to West Palm Beach upon retirement and decided to share his collection of paintings and sculptures. The late Art Deco / Neoclassical building designed by Marion Sims Wyeth opened its doors to
816-663: The Third Reich . This has led to claims for restitution, notably from Jewish collectors who were persecuted or looted by the Nazis. The Nazis looted Cranach's Portrait of John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (around 1530s) from Jewish art collector Fritz Gutmann before murdering him but the painting was recovered by Gutmann's grandson Simon Goodman eighty years later after decades of searching. Cranach's "Cupid Complaining to Venus" passed through in Hitler's personal collection, causing
864-433: The coins for the electorate. Early in the days of his official employment he startled his master's courtiers by the realism with which he painted still life, game and antlers on the walls of the country palaces at Coburg and Locha; his pictures of deer and wild boar were considered striking, and the duke fostered his passion for this form of art by taking him out to the hunting field, where he sketched "his grace" running
912-644: The Artist in Residence Program. 2012 The inaugural Rudin Prize was awarded to Analia Saban , nominated by John Baldessari . The other nominees were: 2014 The second Rudin Prize was awarded to Rami Maymon , nominated by Adi Nes . The other nominees were: 2016 The third Rudin Prize was awarded to Elizabeth Bick, nominated by Shirin Neshat . The other nominees were: 2020 The Rudin Prize
960-503: The British architect Norman Foster that would nearly double its gallery space and add an education center, auditorium and restaurant. The new West Wing added a 43-foot-high Great Hall. A parking lot next to the museum was converted into a 9,000-square-foot sculpture garden. A new entrance and forecourt along the main thoroughfare, South Dixie Highway, re-established the axial layout of Norton's original 1941 Art Deco building. As planned,
1008-456: The Cranach had been consigned to Sothebys by Hans Lange and passed through Hugo Perls and Knoedler Galleries before being acquired by Eugene Thaw. Most of the lawsuits last many years and go through several appeals in different courts. A painting by a follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder titled Lamentation and completed in the 1530s, which had been looted from Poland in 1946, was returned to
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#17327877021121056-704: The Elder , Joos Van Cleve and Studio, Marcantonio Franceshini , Nicolas Largilliere , Peter Paul Rubens , Anton Van Dyck , David Teniers and Studio, Jan Thomas Yperen, Joshua Reynolds , Thomas Gainsborough , and Giovanni Panini. There also are examples of Chinese Export porcelain. In 2018, the Norton Museum of Art received a gift of more than 100 works from the collection of Howard and Judie Ganek, including artworks by Damien Hirst , Anselm Kiefer , Sigmar Polke , Ed Ruscha , Kara Walker , Donald Judd , Matthew Barney , Nan Goldin , Cindy Sherman , Lorna Simpson , and Pipilotti Rist , among others. In 2012,
1104-605: The Jewish Viennese art collector Philipp von Gomperz . On 20 October 2000 a Budapest court ruled that a Cranach and other paintings claimed by the granddaughter of famous Hungarian Jewish art collector Baron Herzog that were looted by Nazis with the Hungarian financial police should be returned to her. In 2012 the heirs of Rosa and Jakob Oppenheimer submitted a claim to the National Gallery of Ireland for
1152-638: The Kaiser is bold enough to revive the Papacy, which God will certainly not allow. During the siege Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, remembered Cranach from his childhood and summoned him to his camp at Pistritz. Cranach came, and begged on his knees for kind treatment for Elector John Frederick. Three years afterward, when all the dignitaries of the Empire met at Augsburg to receive commands from
1200-884: The National Gallery to research its history, suspecting that it may have been looted. The diptych Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder has been the focus of a legal dispute between the heirs of the former owner, Dutch art collector Jacques Goudstikker , and the Norton Simon museum in California. In 1999, the Commission for Art Recovery of the World Jewish Congress notified the North Carolina Museum of Art that its prized Cranach Madonna and Child had been looted by Nazis from
1248-564: The Norton Museum of Art launched the Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers with a $ 20,000 prize. It was initiated by Beth Rudin DeWoody and is given biennially to an emerging photographer who has never had a museum show. Programs The Norton Museum of Art hosts several special programs. They are Lectures & Conversations, Art After Dark, Special Performances, Art Classes and Workshops, Families & Teens, Students & Teachers, and
1296-526: The Virgin and three saints in prayer before a crucifix . Later on he painted the marriage of St. Catherine , a series of martyrdoms , and scenes from the Passion . After 1517 he occasionally illustrated the old subjects, but he also gave expression to some of the thoughts of the Reformers, although his portraits of reformers were more common than paintings of religious scenes. In a picture of 1518, where
1344-541: The boy who afterwards became Emperor Charles V . Until 1508 Cranach signed his works with his initials. In that year the elector gave him the winged snake as an emblem, or Kleinod , which superseded the initials on his pictures after that date. Cranach was the court painter from 1505 to 1550 to the electors of Saxony in Wittenberg, an area in the heart of the emerging Protestant faith. His patrons were powerful supporters of Martin Luther , and Cranach used his art as
1392-438: The death of Frederick the Wise. The later nudes are in a distinctive style which abandons Italian influence for a revival of Late Gothic style, with small heads, narrow shoulders, high breasts and waists. The poses become more frankly seductive and even exhibitionist. Humour and pathos are combined at times in pictures such as Jealousy (Augsburg, 1527; Vienna, 1530), where women and children are huddled into groups as they watch
1440-589: The emperor, and Titian came at Charles's bidding to paint King Philip II of Spain , John Frederick asked Cranach to visit the city; and here for a few months he stayed in the household of the captive elector, whom he afterward accompanied home in 1552. He died at age 81 on October 16, 1553, at Weimar , where the house in which he lived still stands in the marketplace. He was buried in the Jacobsfriedhof in Weimar. The Lutheran Church remembers Cranach as
1488-522: The first time in the public accounts on the 24 June 1504, when he drew 50 gulden for the salary of half a year, as pictor ducalis ("the duke's painter"). Cranach was to remain in the service of the Elector and his successors for the rest of his life, although he was able to undertake other work. Cranach married Barbara Brengbier, the daughter of a burgher of Gotha and also born there; she died at Wittenberg on 26 December 1540. Cranach later owned
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1536-602: The huge international success of Dürer's prints, other German artists, much more than Italian ones, devoted their talents to woodcuts and engravings. This accounts for the comparative unproductiveness as painters of Albrecht Dürer and Hans Holbein the Younger , and also may explain why Cranach was not especially skilled at handling colour, light, and shade. Constant attention to contour and to black and white, as an engraver, seems to have affected his sight; and he often outlined shapes in black rather than employing modelling and chiaroscuro . The largest proportion of Cranach's output
1584-500: The law, Adam and Eve taste the forbidden fruit, the serpent raises its head, and punishment manifests in the shape of death and the realm of Satan . To the right, the Conception, Crucifixion and Resurrection symbolize redemption, and this is duly impressed on Adam by John the Baptist. There are two examples of this composition in the galleries of Gotha and Prague , both of them dated 1529. His workshop made an altarpiece with
1632-488: The marketplace in Wittenberg . According to Gunderam (the tutor of Cranach's children), Cranach demonstrated his talents as a painter before the close of the 15th century. His work then drew the attention of Duke Frederick III, Elector of Saxony , known as Frederick the Wise, who attached Cranach to his court in 1504. The records of Wittenberg confirm Gunderam's statement to this extent: that Cranach's name appears for
1680-660: The museum broke ground in 2016. The museum closed in July 2018 for renovations. It reopened on February 9, 2019, adding 12,000 square feet (1,100 m ) of gallery space, new classrooms, a restaurant, a 210-seat auditorium, and the sculpture garden. Norton Museum closed for eight months in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and reopened in November 2020 with new exhibits and safety precautions. Its current hours are Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm. It
1728-478: The public on Feb. 8, 1941. Its mission statement is "to preserve for the future the beautiful things of the past." In 2001, the Norton Museum of Art underwent a significant expansion when the 45,000-square-foot (4,200 m ) Gail and Melvin Nessel Wing was built and increased the size of the museum to 122,500 square feet (11,380 m ). In 2013, the museum unveiled a $ 60 million master plan designed by
1776-425: The right crucified, with blood flowing from the lance wound. John the Baptist points to the suffering Christ, whilst the blood-stream falls on the head of a portrait of Cranach, and Luther reads from his book the words, "The blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin." Cranach was equally successful in a series of paintings of mythological scenes which nearly always feature at least one slim female figure, naked but for
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1872-604: The stag, or Duke John sticking a boar. Before 1508 he had painted several altar-pieces for the Castle Church at Wittenberg in competition with Albrecht Dürer , Hans Burgkmair and others; the duke and his brother John were portrayed in various attitudes and a number of his best woodcuts and copper-plates were published. In 1509 Cranach went to the Netherlands, and painted the Emperor Maximilian and
1920-537: The strife of men wildly fighting around them. A lost canvas of 1545 is said to show hares catching and roasting hunters. In 1546, possibly under Italian influence, Cranach composed the Fons Juventutis ( The Fountain of Youth ), executed by his son, a picture in which older women are seen entering a Renaissance fountain, and exiting it transformed into youthful beauties. The Nazis had a particular affection for Cranach's work and looted many paintings during
1968-458: The times. How Cranach was trained is not known, but it was probably with local south German masters, as with his contemporary Matthias Grünewald , who worked at Bamberg and Aschaffenburg (Bamberg is the capital of the diocese in which Kronach lies). There are also suggestions that Cranach spent some time in Vienna around 1500. From 1504 to 1520 he lived in a house on the south west corner of
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2016-457: Was an Augustinian friar ; five years later, Luther renounced his religious vows, and Cranach was present as a witness at the betrothal festival of Luther and Katharina von Bora . He was also godfather to their first child, Johannes "Hans" Luther, born 1526. In 1530 Luther lived at the citadel of Veste Coburg under the protection of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and his room is preserved there along with
2064-523: Was an ancestor of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . His granddaughter married Polykarp Leyser the Elder , thus making him an ancestor of the Polykarp Leyser family of theologians. The first evidence of Cranach's skill as an artist comes in a picture dated 1504. Early in his career he was active in several branches of his profession: sometimes a decorative painter, more frequently producing portraits and altarpieces , woodcuts, engravings, and designing
2112-471: Was awarded to Kristin-Lee Moolman, nominated by Cindy Sherman . The other nominees were: Lucas Cranach the Elder Cranach had a large workshop and many of his works exist in different versions; his son Lucas Cranach the Younger and others continued to create versions of his father's works for decades after his death. He has been considered the most successful German artist of his time. He
2160-425: Was born at Kronach in upper Franconia (now central Germany ), probably in 1472. His exact date of birth is unknown. He learned the art of drawing from his father Hans Maler (his surname meaning "painter" and denoting his profession, not his ancestry, after the manner of the time and class). His mother, with surname Hübner, died in 1491. Later, the name of his birthplace was used for his surname, another custom of
2208-544: Was only lost by fire in 1871. Cranach, like his patron, was friendly with the Protestant Reformers at a very early stage; yet it is difficult to fix the time of his first meeting with Martin Luther. The oldest reference to Cranach in Luther's correspondence dates from 1520. In a letter written from Worms in 1521, Luther calls him his "gossip", warmly alluding to his "Gevatterin", the artist's wife. Cranach first made an engraving of Luther in 1520, when Luther
2256-478: Was taken prisoner at the Battle of Mühlberg , and Wittenberg was besieged. As Cranach wrote from his house to the grand-master Albert, Duke of Prussia at Königsberg to tell him of John Frederick's capture, he showed his attachment by saying, I cannot conceal from your Grace that we have been robbed of our dear prince, who from his youth upwards has been a true prince to us, but God will help him out of prison, for
2304-493: Was taken with the biblical subjects of Salome and Adam and Eve . He and his workshop also painted more than sixty versions of Lucretia , the self-stabbing pagan heroine whose death sparked the Roman Republic. These subjects were produced early in his career, when they show Italian influences including that of Jacopo de' Barberi , who was at the court of Saxony for a period up to 1505. They then become rare until after
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