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Other Paintings

Jim Dine Painting, Untitled, 1982
Jim Dine Painting
Untitled, 1982
Sold ID # W-6406
Retna Painting, Untitled, 2019
Retna Painting
Untitled, 2019
Sold ID # W-6539
Alexander Calder Painting, Untitled 1969
Alexander Calder Painting
Untitled 1969
Sold ID # W-6186
Paul Jenkins Painting, Untitled, 1979
Paul Jenkins Painting
Untitled, 1979
Sold ID # W-6160
Victor Vasarely Painting, Duo-2, 1967
Victor Vasarely Painting
Duo-2, 1967
Sold ID # w-295
Yvaral Painting, Horizon Structure Jov, 1976
Yvaral Painting
Horizon Structure Jov, 1976
Sold ID # w-3694
Paul Jenkins Painting, Untitled, 1963
Paul Jenkins Painting
Untitled, 1963
Sold ID # W-6551
Paul Jenkins Painting, Untitled, 1989-1990
Paul Jenkins Painting
Untitled, 1989-1990
Sold ID # W-6318
Paul Jenkins Painting, Untitled, 1974
Paul Jenkins Painting
Untitled, 1974
Sold ID # w-6449

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Lucas Cranach the Elder gained his reputation during the Northern Renaissance for such beautiful original paintings as 'The Three Graces' and a superb 'Adam and Eve.'

Genres: Old Masters Religious Portraiture Royal/Court Commission

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Lucas Cranach the Elder Biography

Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, 1472–1553)

German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder takes his name from the small town of Kronach in South Germany, where he was born, and very little is known of his life before about 1500-01, when he settled in Vienna and started working in the humanist circles associated with the newly founded university. His stay in Vienna was brief (he left in 1504), but in his period there he painted some of his finest and most original works. They include portraits, notably those of Johannes Cuspinian, a lecturer at the university, and his wife Anna (Reinhart Collection, Winterhur), and several religious works in which he shows a remarkable feeling for the beauty of landscape characteristic of the Danube school. The finest example of this manner is perhaps the Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Staatliche Museen, Berlin), which shows the Holy Family resting in the glade of a German pine forest. It was painted in 1504, just before Cranach went to Wittenberg as court painter to Frederick III (the Wise), Elector of Saxony.

The Rest on the Flight to Egypt

1504 (60 Kb); Staatliche Museen, Gemaldegalerie, West Berlin

Cranach remained in Wittenberg until 1550, when he followed John Frederick (the Unfortunate), the last Saxon Elector of the Ernestine branch, into exile, in Augsburg. During his time in Wittenberg he became extremely wealthy and one of the city's most respected citizens, serving as burgomaster for several years. His paintings were eagerly sought by collectors, and his busy studio often produced numerous replicas of popular designs, particularly those in which he showed his skill at depicting female beauty -- more than ten versions are known of his Reclining Nymph. He excelled at erotic nudes, which sometimes draw on Italian Renaissance models but are totally different in spirit, and he also had a penchant for pictures of coquettish women wearing large hats, sometimes shown as Judith or the goddesses in the Judgement of Paris. The most innovative works of his Wittenberg period, however, are probably his full-length portraits (The Duke and Duchess of Saxony, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, 1514).

Cranach continued with his religious work, but his woodcut designs (notably those for the first German edition of the New Testament in 1522) are generally more interesting that his paintings in this sphere. He also painted several portraits of Martin Luther. Despite his allegiance to the Protestant cause, he continued to work for Catholic patrons and was a very astute businessman. During the last years of his life Cranach was assisted by his son, Lucas the Younger (1515-86), who carried on the tradition of the workshop and imitated his father's style so successfully that it is often difficult to distinguish between their hands.

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