Cranach the Elder
dal 22/11/2007 al 16/2/2008
Segnalato da
22/11/2007
Cranach the Elder
Stadel Museum, Frankfurt
A comprehensive exhibition of more than 70 masterpieces by Lucas Cranach, the great Reformation painter, from all the important international and national museums and collections. He breathed completely new life into religious themes. His specialty, however, were perfectly rendered erotic paintings.
The Städel is assembling a comprehensive exhibition of more than seventy masterpieces by Lucas Cranach, the great Reformation painter, from all the important international and national museums and collections.
More popular and even more successful economically than his contemporary Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach has probably had the most enduring influence on Germany’s visual world. He breathed completely new life into religious themes. His specialty, however, were perfectly rendered erotic paintings. In them he created a timeless ideal of female beauty that continued to speak to twentieth-century artists from Picasso to Giacometti.
This exhibition will attempt both to present a high-quality cross section of Cranach’s powerful oeuvre and to come closer to the secret of his success.
Image: Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucretia, 1532
Stadel Museum
Schaumainkai 63 - Frankfurt