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Lucas Cranach, the Elder, leading painter of Saxony, and one of the most important and influential artists in 16th-century German art. Among his vast output of paintings and woodcuts, the most important are altarpieces, court portraits and portraits of the Protestant Reformers, and innumerable.

Lucas Cranach der Ältere. Born: October 4, 1472. Died: October 16, 1553. Active Years: 1500 - 1553. Nationality: German. Art Movement: Northern Renaissance. Painting School: Danube school. Field: painting, printmaking, engraving. Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder.

Lucas Cranach died in Weimar in 1553 at the age of eighty-one. [Hand, John Oliver, with the assistance of Sally E. Mansfield. German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue.

Summary of Lucas Cranach the Elder. One of Germany's most eminent sixteenth century artists, Cranach's career tends to be divided into three phases. He made his early reputation as a painter of romanticized devotional pieces set in the rugged landscapes of the Alpine foothills.

Lucas Cranach the Elder. 1472 - 1553. Cranach was one of the leading German painters and printmakers of the early 16th century. As court painter of the Elector of Saxony, the patron of Luther, Cranach is remembered as the chief artist of the Reformation.