Martin Luther, half-length, facing right

Martin Luther, half-length, facing right

Title

Martin Luther, half-length, facing right

[KKL 2022]

Painting on beech wood

Medium

Painting on beech wood

[Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, revised 2014]
[Klein report, 02.02.1982]

See German text version

Attribution
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, revised 2014] [KKL 2022]

Production date
about 1530

Production date

about 1530

[Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, revised 2014] [KKL 2022]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 52 x 36.5

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 52 x 36.5

  • [Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, revised 2014]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at top right: serpent with elevated wings with black paint

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at top right: serpent with elevated wings with black paint

  • [KKL 2022]

Inscriptions and Labels

'M L || IN SILENTIO ET SPE ERIT FORTITUDO VESTRA'
[KKL 2022]

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

  • 'M L || IN SILENTIO ET SPE ERIT FORTITUDO VESTRA'

  • [KKL 2022]

Owner
Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg
Repository
Unknown
CDA ID
DE_LmKKO_15-572
FR (1978) Nr.
FR312D
KKL-No
IV.M22*, Part of portait group IV
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_LmKKO_15-572/

Provenance

  • probably from the collection of Daniel Stenglin, Hamburg
  • first recorded in the museum in 1845
  • stolen in 2002, whereabouts unknown
    [Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, revised 2014]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Cat. Coburg 2018 36, 142 under no. 2
AuthorKlaus Weschenfelder
TitleCranach in Coburg. Gemälde von Lucas Cranach d.Ä., Lucas Cranach d.J., der Werkstatt und des Umkreises in den Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Place of PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication2018
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Exhib. Cat. Florence 2017 72 under no. 5
EditorFrancesca de Luca, Giovanni Maria Fara
Title I volti della Riforma. Lutero e Cranach nelle collezioni medicee [Uffizi, Florence]
Place of PublicationFlorence, Milan
Year of Publication2017
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Deuter 2011 58 Fig. p. 59
AuthorJörg Deuter
TitleJohann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein als Sammler. Europäische Kunst 1500-1800
Place of PublicationOldenburg
Year of Publication2011
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Klein 1994 A 200 Tab. 10
AuthorPeter Klein
TitleLucas Cranach und seine Werkstatt. Holzarten und dendrochronologische Analyse
Publicationin Claus Grimm, Johannes Erichsen, Evamaria Brockhoff, eds.,Lucas Cranach. Ein Maler-Unternehmer aus Franken, Exhib. Cat. Kronach 1994
SeriesVeröffentlichungen zur bayerischen Geschichte und Kultur
Volume26
Place of PublicationAugsburg, Coburg
Year of Publication1994
Pages194-200
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 No. 312D
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
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Cat. Oldenburg 1967 49 Fig.
AuthorHerbert Wolfgang Keiser
TitleGemäldegalerie Oldenburg
Volume1, 2
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication1967
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 74 251g
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1932
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932
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Cat. Oldenburg 1912 Plate 76 (Bd. 2)
AuthorGustav Friedrich Hartlaub
TitleDie Großherzogliche Gemälde-Galerie im Augusteum zu Oldenburg
Volume1, 2
Place of PublicationOldenburg
Year of Publication1912
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Cat. Oldenburg 1845 No. 52
Authorn. a.
TitleVerzeichnis der Gemälde und Gypsabgüsse in der Großherzoglichen Sammlung zu Oldenburg
Place of PublicationOldenburg
Year of Publication1845
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Research History / Discussion

'The age of the sitter suggests a creation date of about 1530 [...] the painting is more competently drawn and exhibits a more delicate and individual rendering of the sitter than the numerous small format portraits of Luther, that left the workshop in their dozens; however this painting does not rank among the really good, autographed portraits that Cranach painted of his friends.'

[Bode 1888, 80]

[Keiser 1967, Nr. 49]

  • Martin Luther, half-length, facing right, about 1530

Images

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Documents

Technical studies

14.05.1992Scientific analysis

  • Dendrochronology / identification of wood species

Support

Identification of wood species: beech wood

Youngest annual ring: 1523

[Klein Report, 14.05.1992]

  • examined by Peter Klein

02.02.1982Scientific analysis

  • Dendrochronology / identification of wood species

Support

Identification of wood species: beech wood

Plank I: 73 annual rings, 1520 - 1448; plank II: 93 annual rings, 1521 - 1429; plank III: 127 annual rings, 1523 – 1397

The youngest annual ring is from 1523; the earliest felling date is 1524; following a two year seasoning period the panel could have been used by 1526.

The planks I and III are from the same tree as the linked panels.

[Klein report, 02.02.1982]

  • analysed by Peter Klein

Conservation History

Date1936

1936 conservation treatment by Lily Lange, Bremen

[Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, revised 2014]

  • conservation treatment by Lily Lange

Versions

Martin Luther, bust-length, facing right
  • Martin Luther, bust-length, facing right, 1529
  • DE_DHM_Gm1989-1547-1
  • Painting
  • Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
Martin Luther, half-length, facing left
  • Martin Luther, half-length, facing left, 1529
  • CH_KMBe_592
  • Painting
  • Kunstmuseum Bern

Support made from the same tree

Johann Friedrich I, the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony
  • Johann Friedrich I, the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony, about 1536
  • DE_KSVC_M021
  • Painting
  • Veste Coburg Kunstsammlungen
Lot and his Daughters
  • Lot and his Daughters, 1529
  • DE_BStGS_WAF167
  • Painting
  • Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Lot and his daughters
  • Lot and his daughters, 1528
  • DE_KSVC_M416
  • Painting
  • Oberfrankenstiftung
Martin Luther, bust-length, facing right
  • Martin Luther, bust-length, facing right, about 1528 - 1530
  • DE_LHW_G16
  • Painting
  • Evangelisches Predigerseminar Wittenberg
Margrave Casimir of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1481-1527)
  • Margrave Casimir of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1481-1527), after 1524
  • AT_KHM_GG883
  • Painting
  • Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
The Pfirtsch Altar: St. Stephan [fixed wing panel, right]
  • The Pfirtsch Altar: St. Stephan [fixed wing panel, right], 1526
  • DE_BStGS_6262
  • Painting
  • Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
The Pfirtsch Altar: St Martin [fixed wing panel, left]
  • The Pfirtsch Altar: St Martin [fixed wing panel, left], 1526
  • DE_BStGS_6264
  • Painting
  • Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Martin Luther, bust-length, facing right
  • Martin Luther, bust-length, facing right, 1529
  • DE_KBSB_B59
  • Painting
  • Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Stadtgemeinde
Katharina of Bora, bust-length, facing left
  • Katharina of Bora, bust-length, facing left, 1529
  • DE_KBSB_B60
  • Painting
  • Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Stadtgemeinde
Katharina of Bora, bust-length, facing left
  • Katharina of Bora, bust-length, facing left, 1529
  • DE_SMG_SG17
  • Painting
  • Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha
Apollo and Diana
  • Apollo and Diana, 1530
  • DE_smbGG_564
  • Painting
  • Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, Prince of Mainz (1490 - 1545) as St Jerome
  • Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, Prince of Mainz (1490 - 1545) as St Jerome, 1527
  • DE_smbGG_589
  • Painting
  • Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
Johann the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony
  • Johann the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony, about 1526
  • DE_KSW_G6
  • Painting
  • Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Museums
The Judgement of Paris
  • The Judgement of Paris, 1530
  • DE_SKK_0109
  • Painting
  • Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
The Crucifixion
  • The Crucifixion, 1532
  • US_IMA_2000-344
  • Painting
  • Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Clowes Collection
Venus in a Landscape
  • Venus in a Landscape, 1529
  • F_MdLP_1180
  • Painting
  • Musée du Louvre, Paris
Family of Wild Men
  • Family of Wild Men, about 1530
  • DE_SWK_6545
  • Painting
  • Sammlung Würth
Martin Luther, bust-length, facing right
  • Martin Luther, bust-length, facing right, 1529
  • DE_HLMD_GK73a
  • Painting
  • Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Portrait of Joachim II, Elector of Brandenburg
  • Portrait of Joachim II, Elector of Brandenburg, 1529
  • US_PMA_739
  • Painting
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
Lucretia
  • Lucretia, 1530
  • FIN_FNG_S-1994-224
  • Painting
  • Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus
  • Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, about 1530 - 1536
  • NL_EF-MBBR_EF001
  • Painting
  • Erasmusstichting, Rotterdam (Erasmus Foundation, Rotterdam)
Martin Luther, half-length, facing left
  • Martin Luther, half-length, facing left, as of 1529
  • DE_SAA_NONE-SAA002
  • Painting
  • Ev.-Luth. Kirchengemeinde St. Anna, Augsburg
John Frederick I of Saxony, half-length, facing left
  • John Frederick I of Saxony, half-length, facing left, as of 1529
  • DE_SAA_NONE-SAA003
  • Painting
  • Ev.-Luth. Kirchengemeinde St. Anna, Augsburg
Martin Luther, bust-length, facing right
  • Martin Luther, bust-length, facing right, about 1529 - 1530
  • DE_SPSG_GKI50476
  • Painting
  • Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg
Portrait of Magdalena of Saxony, Wife of Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg
  • Portrait of Magdalena of Saxony, Wife of Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, about 1529
  • US_artic_1938-310
  • Painting
  • The Art Institute of Chicago
Martin Luther, half-length, facing right
  • Martin Luther, half-length, facing right, 1530
  • PRIVATE_NONE-P411
  • Painting
  • Private Collection

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