I'm planning a trip to Germany and Austria this year. I'm still flexible about my itinerary at this point and would like to see some works by one of my favorite painters, Lucas Cranach the Elder, while I am in that part of the world. If anyone has advice on which German museums have his paintings in their collections, I'd appreciate it. I'd also welcome any reflections on what travelers have enjoyed at museums in Germany in general. Danke schon! (sorry, can't umlaut on this keyboard).

Hello Lizbeth,<BR><BR>although I am no expert on the topic I did a search and found two good websites for you:<BR>www.cranach.de and<BR>http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cranach/<BR><BR>The last one is in English. Obviously you will find a lot of his works in Wittenberg/Germany. That town is in East Germany and the location of the Cranach foundation. I am German, but I have never been there, sorry. If you really want to include that town in your trip I can provide some info how do do it with interesting places nearby.<BR><BR>No first-hand information, sorry, but if you need any help just ask.<BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR>Miriam

I'm currently researching my own planned trip to Germany. I can tell you off the top of my head that there are a bunch of Cranachs in the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin and the Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, and a couple in Weimar (don't recall the name of the museum), but I'm sure there are others elsewhere, too. You may find it easier to find Cranachs than to avoid them -- he ran quite a "factory" (a/k/a/ "studio") in his later years!<BR><BR>I remember seeing some at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. There are some lovely things at that museum. Of course, I can't remember what they were right now, except for some Lorenzo Lottos.<BR><BR>Blue Guides can be useful for research like this, since they tend to favor exhaustive lists of what's in museums, and they have indexes of artists' names. There are separate Blue Guides to Western and Eastern Germany (not terribly recent, but should still be more or less correct about this kind of thing)and also a Blue Guide to Austria. There may even be one for Berlin or Vienna. Maybe you can find them at a library or bookshop.

Have you checked the collection at the Alte Pinakothek, Munich?

<BR><BR>I'm looking at a booklet on Cranach published by InterNationes in 1972. This illustrates<BR><BR>Rest on the Flight into Egypt<BR>The Fountain of Youth <BR>Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg as St Jerome<BR>And Dead Roller-Crow, Gemaldegalerie Berlin-Dahlem (but Berlin holdings have been reshuffled since then, so you'll need to phone and ask)<BR><BR>Altar of St Katharine,<BR>and The birth of Christ, Gemaldegalerie, Dresden<BR><BR>The Emperor Maximilian's Prayerbook, Staatsbibliothek, Munich<BR>Christ on the Cross<BR>and Venus and Cupid, Alte Pinakothek, Munich<BR><BR>The Head of a Peasant, Offentliche Kunstsammlung, Basle<BR><BR>Elector Joachim von Brandenburg, Staatsgallerie, Aschaffenburg<BR><BR>Then I went into http://www.artunframed.com/cranach.htm<BR>and found Nymph of Spring and The Holy Trinity <BR>at the Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig<BR><BR>The site http://www.humrichfineart.com/cranach.html says that among Cranach's best-known works are Judgement of Paris (Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe); Adam and Eve (Courtauld Institute, London) and Crucifixion (Weimar). The aforementioned Crucifixion contains figures of Luther and Cranach. His many famous portraits include those of Elector John Frederick and Self- Portrait (The Uffizi Gallery).<BR>I see that the Anton-Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig has Hercules & Onfale<BR><BR>And so on. Perhaps a library near you has a major study of Cranach the Elder, with a catalogue raisonne. <BR><BR>Of course I've liked the Durers in various galleries. But also the Rhineland fifteenth century, well represented in Cologne, and the gloomy and romantic Carl Davis Friedrich, who has a good display in the palace at Charlottenburg in Berlin.<BR><BR>Please write if I can help further.<BR><BR>Ben Haines, London<BR>

Hello Lizbeth,<BR><BR>oh Lord...I just tried to help and then you got these responses. I guess you better trust Ben and KT, I just did a search for websites. I hope you will have a nice trip...<BR><BR>Miriam

We were recently visiting sites related to Martin Luther and if I remember correctly we saw Cranach's work at his home in Wittenberg and at the Wartburg Castle in Eisenach.