SOLD OUT – An Artist During Times of Change: Lucas Cranach between Court, Church & Reform

He was employed by Elector Frederick III, a deeply devout prince; he was a close friend of Martin Luther; and he oversaw the production of a monumental painting cycle for Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg, one of the fiercest enemies of the reformer. As the versatile master of a highly productive workshop, Lucas Cranach the Elder is, apart from Dürer, arguably one of the most influential German artists of the early 1500s. This talk will examine the multiple roles and strategies that enabled Cranach to first establish and later reposition his workshop as a center for visual culture in the dramatically changing cultural landscape of the German Reformation period.

Armin Kunz had fellowships in the print department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel and worked as an art critic for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. After working in Düsseldorf and London, he returned to New York City as head of C.G. Boerner, where he now is a managing partner. In addition to the firm’s regularly published catalogues, he writes occasionally on German art of the Dürer (and Cranach) period, as well as on German Romanticism.

Agnes Lynch Anderson and Roger Anderson Lecture

$10; $5 Mia members, free for Paintings Affinity Group and Prints & Drawing Affinity Group members

AUDITORIUM SOLD OUT – Overflow in Wells Fargo Room. Overflow is not ticketed and is first come, first served. Check back to view a video of the event posted after it has taken place.