Lucas The Elder Cranach (1472 - 1553)
Lucas The Elder Cranach (1472-1553) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the major representatives of the northern Renaissance. Lucas the Elder was the father of Hans and Lucas Cranach the Younger, also painters.
Cranach was the eldest of nine children. His father, Hans Maler, a painter himself, must have given him his first lessons. Lucas adopted the name Cranach when he was already over 30. It refers to his place of birth, the current town Kronach.
He moved to Vienna in 1501, and to...
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