Cranach in Bavaria

To mark the Alte Pinakothek's jubilee year, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen has gathered 30 works from its large and far-flung holdings of paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder to create a small exhibition that ranges from the expressive early works by the master himself to high-quality pictures by his successors. The problems of serial production, the variation of a subject and the results of recent research can be traced in an exemplary fashion alongside certain aspects of a collection's history.

Photo: Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Sacrifice of Abraham (detail), 1530, Staatsgalerie Bamberg