Leading painter of Saxony who was one of the most important and influential artists in the 16th century flowering of German painting and graphic arts.
Trained in his father´s studio until 1498 he is known to have been in Coburg inn 1501 and Vienna c. 1502.
Typical of his early work are emotive biblical scenes embellished with landscapes reminiscent of the Danube scool.
From 1505 to 1550 he was court painter at Wittenberg and as such was a propagandist for the Protestant Reformation (which began in 1517).
Among his vast output of paintings, woodcuts and decorative works, the most important are alterpieces, court portraits and portraits of the Protestant Reformers and innumerable pictures of women -elongated female nudes and fashionably dressed ladies with titles from the Bible or mythology.
Wealthy and famous Cranach had a large studio of assistants which has given rise to problems of attribution.
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