Lucas Cranach (1472-1553) is a German painter, who named himself after his hometown of Kronach, near Bamberg. He seems to have spent his first years of training in his father's workshop. Nothing is known about his further training and his years of traveling. There is evidence that he worked in Coburg, Gotha, and Vienna, traveled in Danube valley, making drawings for woodcuts and also painting, around A.D. 1500-1504.
1502. Oil on wood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Read Note.
1502-1503. Oil on panel. Dr. Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur, Switzerland. Read Note.
1503. Oil on wood. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
1504. Oil tempera on wood. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. Read Note.
1506. Oil on wood. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany. Read Note.
1509. Oil on canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1509-1510. Oil on wood. Gemaldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Kunste, Vienna, Austria.
c.1510. Oil on wood. Staatliche Galerie, Dessau, Germany.
1510-1514. Oil on wood. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano-Castagnola, Switzerland.
1514. Oil on wood. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany. Read Note.
1514. Oil on wood. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany. Read Note.
c.1514. Oil on panel, right wing. 85 x 31 cm. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
c.1514. Oil on panel, left wing, 85 x 31 cm. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
c. 1514. Oil on panel, right wing, 85 x 31 cm. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
c. 1514. Oil on panel, left wing, 85 x 31 cm. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
1515-1520. Oil on wood. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany. Read Note.
c.1516. Oil on wood. Szepmuveseti Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary. Read Note.
1516. Oil on wood. Szepmuveseti Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary. Read Note.
c.1517. Oil on wood. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
c.1517. Oil on wood. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
Die Dresdner Galerie. Alte Meister. by M. Alpatow. VEB Verlag der Kunst. Dresden. 1966.
Cranach the Elder. by A. Nemilov. Moscow. 1973.
Malt, hände, malt. Ein Cranach-Roman. von Renate Krüger. Leipzig. 1975.
Cranach. by Viorica Guy Marica. Maridiane. Bucharest. 1983.
The Cranachs: A Family of Painters. by Werner Schade. Moscow. 1987. (in Russian)
Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1999.
Lucas Cranach the Elder by Harald Marx. Konemann, 2002.
Lucas Cranach the Elder: 1472-1553 (Great Painters Series) by Alexander Stepanov. Parkstone Press, 1997.
Lucas Cranach: His Life, His World and His Art by Peter Moser. Babenberg, 2005.