Event Item: 00042

Städel Museum: Cranach the Elder

Exhibition: 23rd Nov 2007 to 17th Feb 2007

Source: http://www.staedelmuseum.de

The Städel Museum in Frankfurt 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 speciality, 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.

(Additional venue: Royal Academy of Arts, London, 12 March to 8 June 2008)

Städel Museum, Dürerstr. 2, 60596 Frankfurt am Main