Alte Pinakothek Presents Paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Alte Pinakothek in Munich presents Cranach in Bavaria on view 14.04.2011 – 17.07.2011.
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.
Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Sacrifice of Abraham (detail), 1530, Staatsgalerie Bamberg
The Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Painting Collections) supervise the major part of the painting and art properties of the Free State of Bavaria, as well as the Munich museums in which the works are kept: the Alte Pinakothek, the Neue Pinakothek, the Sammlung Moderne Kunst in the Pinakothek der Moderne, the Sammlung Schack, as well as a dozen associated galleries throughout Bavaria. The administrative offices are located in the west wing of the Neue Pinakothek. Here art historians from various special fields, natural scientists and restorers from the affiliated Doerner Institut work together with numerous other coworkers to administer, preserve and precisely study the enormous stock of more than 30,000 objects.
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