biography
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Cranach, Lucas
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known as Lucas Cranach the Elder
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pronunciation:
[krahnakh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1472–1553)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Kronach, EC Germany, from where he took his name. In 1504 he became court painter at Wittenberg to the Elector Frederick. His paintings include sacred and a few classical subjects, hunting scenes, and portraits. He was closely associated with the German Reformers, many of whom (including Luther and Melanchthon) were portrayed by himself and his pupils. A ‘Crucifixion’ in the Stadkirche, Weimar, is his masterpiece. Of three sons, all painters, the second, Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–86), painted so like his father that their works are difficult to distinguish. |
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