Cranach: The Early Years in Vienna
Lucas Cranach the Elder, Portrait of Dr. Johannes Cuspinian & Portrait of Anna Cuspinian, 1502, Reinart Collection "Am Römerholz", Winterthur.
The exhibition Cranach – The Early Years in Vienna , organised jointly with the Oskar Reinhart Collection "Am Römerholz" (where it opened last Spring), pays tribute to the artistic beginnings of Lucas Cranach the Elder for the first time . The artist, who came from Franconia, created his earliest known works around 1500 in Vienna. Their markedly expressive style clearly distinguishes them from the later courtly-elegant formal language that is considered typical of Cranach. Only a small number of works from the early artistic phase are known, and these are the key works are now in Winterthur and Vienna.