Associate Partner Institutions

Anhaltische Gemälde-Galerie, Dessau

The collection of the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie in Schloss Georgium is comprised of c. 2000 paintings and as such represents the largest collection of Old Master Paintings in Saxony-Anhalt. The permanent collection currently displays German paintings from the 15th to the 19th century, including major works by Lucas Cranach, as well as important holdings of Dutch 16th-17th century painting.

The collection of the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie contains 17 paintings by or attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucas Cranach the Younger, and workshop.

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Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

The Germanisches Nationalmuseum is the largest cultural history museum within the German-speaking region. The collection of c. 2,500 paintings conveys a representative overview of the art of painting in German speaking countries from the 13th up to the 20th century. Within this collection 15th and 16th century painting as well as stained glass are particularly prominent, with numerous outstanding works by Lochner, Witz, Wolgemut, Dürer, Baldung, Cranach and Altdorfer.

The Germanisches Nationalmuseum houses a collection of 33 paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucas Cranach the Younger and workshop.

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Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig

Duke Anton Ulrich of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel established his collections at the end of the 17th century. Today they are kept in the museum in Braunschweig build in 1887. Apart from a collection of about 1400 paintings the museums holds wide collections of sculpture, applied art and ethnographic objects. In the printroom more than 155.000 prints and drawings are collected. The paintings gallery contains works from 15th century through the time around 1800, with its centre in renaissance and baroque art from Italy, the Netherlands and German speaking countries. Paintings by Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Giorgione, Palma Vecchio, Veronese, Holbein and Elsheimer are some of the masterpieces of the collection.

The Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum owns 13 paintings by Lucas Cranach the older and one piece by Lucas Cranach the younger, as well as 6 old copies.

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Klassik Stiftung, Weimar

The Klassik Stiftung Weimar is a unique ensemble of cultural memorial sites. With more than 20 museums, palaces, historic houses, parks as well as literary and art collections, it is one of the largest and most significant cultural institutions in Germany. Acquisitions by the Dukedom form the core of the paintings collection, which is on display in the historical rooms of the castle museum. Old German painting is represented with major works by Dürer, Cranach and Barbari amongst others.

There are 31 paintings by or attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucas Cranach the Younger and workshop in the Gemäldegalerie.

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Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Coburg

The castles complex of the Veste Coburg is one of the largest and best preserved in Germany. It houses the art treasures of the Dukes of Coburg, which rank amongst the major art and historic collections in Germany. The paintings collection has been considerably enriched by a collection of Old Master paintings from the Schäfer family (Schweinfurt), purchased in 2003.

The Veste Coburg houses a collection of 35 paintings by or attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucas Cranach the Younger, and workshop.

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Musees royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels

Founded two centuries ago, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium hold some twenty thousand paintings, sculptures and drawings. Located in Brussels, they consist of the Ancient Art Museum, the Modern Art Museum, the Wiertz Museum, the Meunier Museum and the Musée Magritte. The Museum of Ancient Art houses a vast collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the 15th to the 18th century, among them masterpieces by Bruegel, Van der Weyden, Campin, Van Dyck and Rubens.

The collection contains seven paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucas Cranach the Younger and workshop.

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Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig

The Museum der bildenden Künste (Museum of Fine Arts) in Leipzig, which opened in 1848, houses an extensive collection of c. 3,500 paintings, 1,000 sculptures and 60,000 prints and drawings from the late middle ages to the present. The core of the collection consists of 15th and 16th century Early Netherlandish painting, Italian painting from the 15th to the 18th century and 17th century Dutch and Flemish painting.

The Museum der bildenden Künste has a collection of 21 Cranach paintings.

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Statens Museum for Kunst, Kopenhagen

The collections at the National Gallery of Denmark consist of three main collections: The Royal Collection of Painting and Sculpture, The Royal Collection of Graphic Art, and The Royal Collection of Plaster Casts. The collections are believed to date back to King Christian II and the mid-16th century. Today, the Collection of Sculpture and Painting comprises approximately 10,500 paintings and sculptures.

There are 17 Cranach paintings in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst.

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Stiftung Preußischer Schlösser und Gärten, Berlin-Brandenburg

The Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg is one of the largest foundations of its kind worldwide. It is comprised of 33 former royal palaces, residences and historic houses that are open to the public, as well as numerous gardens and about 250,000 works of art. It oversees some of the most beautiful examples of art-, cultural- and architectural history in Brandenburg-Prussia. The collections include more than 4,000 paintings, which are distributed amongst the various properties, most significantly the Bildergalerie of Sanssouci, which was founded by Friedrich II.

The Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten possesses a collection of about 35 paintings by or attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucas Cranach the Younger and workshop, most of which are on display in Jagdschloss Grunewald (from October 2011).

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Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein Gotha

Schloss Friedenstein is one of the largest early Baroque castle complexes in Germany. Together with the castle museum it houses a unique collection of art, which essentially originates from the art cabinet established in 1653 by Ernst I., the Devout, Elector of Saxony-Gotha (Altenburg) (1601 - 1675). The collection contains amongst others Old German and Early Netherlandish painting, Medieval and Classicist sculpture, an important Numismatic Collection as well as a prints and drawings cabinet.

There are 24 paintings by or attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucas Cranach the Younger and workshop in the Schlossmuseum.

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Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest

The Szépmüvészeti Múzeum Budapest was founded in 1896 as a state museum for fine arts, incorporating the former Hungarian state collections. It houses an Old Masters' Gallery, a Department of Prints and Drawings, further collections of sculptures, 19th century and modern art, classical and Egyptian antiquities. The Old Masters' Gallery is a comprehensive collection of the European art from the 13th to 18th centuries. The main focuses are on the Italian renaissance and on Spanish art, but the northern schools are equally well represented in the collection.

The Szépmüvészeti Múzeum has in its possession 19 paintings, 1 drawing and many prints by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop.

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Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

The Kunsthalle, which opened in 1846, is one of the few early German museums that has retained its original appearance and content. In the main building and the Orangery 800 works from the Middle Ages to the present day are on permanent display. Among the major works in the department of Early German paintings are the panels by the Master of the Karlsruhe Passion as well as excellent paintings by Matthias Grünewald, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, Hans Baldung Grien, Bernhard Strigel and Hans Burgkmair.

The collection of the Staatlichen Kunsthalle contains 22 paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucas Cranach the Younger and workshop as well as further works by followers.

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Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main

Since its founding by the Frankfurt businessman Johann Friedrich Städel in 1811 the Städelsche Kunstinstitute has continued to expand its holdings. The collection is comprised of about 2,900 paintings, 600 sculptures, 500 photographs and more than 100,000 prints and drawings. The rich content of the Städel Museum presents an overview of 700 years of European Art History - from the early 14th century through the Renaissance, the Baroque and Classic Modernism to Contemporary Art. Highlights of the collection include masterpieces by Holbein the Younger, Cranach the Elder, Dürer, Botticelli, Rembrandt and Vermeer.

The Städel Museum houses a collection of nine paintings by or attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucas Cranach the Younger and workshop.

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Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF), Paris

The Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France, abbreviated as 'C2RMF' (Centre of Research and Conservation of Museums in France), is located in Paris and was created in 1998 through the fusion of the Laboratoire de recherche des musées de France (Laboratory of Research of Museums in France), founded in 1931, and the Service de restauration des musées de France (Service of Conservation of Museums in France). It applies the policy concerning research, preventive conservation and restoration determined by the Governing board of the Museums of France. Today the Centre's archives contain 40.000 laboratory reports and 34.000 restoration dossiers, concerning more than 60.000 works of art in museums in France.

The C2RMF houses a rich collection of documentary material (art historical documentation, examination and conservation reports) on 33 of the Cranach paintings in French museums.

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Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Located since 1992 in the Villahermosa Palace in Madrid the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum offers visitors an overview of art from the 13th century to the late 20th century. In the nearly one thousand works on display, visitors can contemplate the major periods and pictorial schools of western art such as the Renaissance, Mannerism, the Baroque, Rococo, Romanticism and the art of the 19th and 20th centuries up to Pop Art.

There are 11 paintings by or attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Cranach, Lucas Cranach the Younger, and workshop in the collection of the Museo Thyssen Bornemisza.

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Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt

The Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt was founded in 1997. It is devoted to preserving and mediating the heritage of Martin Luther and the Reformation. It takes care of four museums: the Lutherhaus and the Melanchthonhaus in Wittenberg as well as the birth house of Luther and the museum 'Luthers Sterbehaus' in Eisleben.

The Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten possesses 21 paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucas Cranach the Younger and the workshop.

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Thüringisches Hauptstaatsarchiv - Ernestinisches Gesamtarchiv, Weimar

The archive was founded in 1547 along with the establishment of the residence of the Ernestine line (Haus Wettin) in Weimar. Since then the archive consists of two sections: one containing archival records from the Ernestine government and its predecessor, which were united in the joint main archive of the Saxon-Ernstine House (Ernestinisches Gesamtarchiv) and the other containing the central archive of the Ernestine Dukedom Saxony-Weimar, which was the Secret State archive of the Grand-Duchy (Geheimes Haupt- und Staatsarchiv des Großherzogtums) and after the abolition of the Monarchy (1918) that of the Freestate of Saxony-Weimar-Eisennach (Freistaates Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach).

The Thüringisches Hauptstaatsarchiv possesses the account books from the Wittenberg Court, which include numerous written documents (letters, payment orders etc.) by or concerning Lucas Cranach.

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Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague

The RKD (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie/Netherlands Institute for Art History) is one of the most important art-historical information centres in the world, administering a unique collection of documentary, library and archive material on Western art from the late Middle Ages to the present. Documentation about Dutch art forms the nucleus of the collections. The RKD has an active collecting policy covering painting, drawing and sculpture as well as monumental art, media art, and design.

The RKD contains a collection of b/w photographs of Cranach paintings from the Friedländer archive.

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Project Contributors

Angermuseum, Erfurt
Arcibiskupského zámku a zahrad, Kromeriz
Art Museum Seattle
Art Museum St. Louis
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton
Burg Eltz, Münstermaifeld
Compton Verney, Warwickshire
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde St. Katharina, Zwickau
Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde St. Peter und Paul, Weimar
Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde St. Wenzel, Naumburg
Ev.-Luth. Kirchgemeinde St. Wolfgang, Schneeberg
Ev.-Luth. Marktkirchgemeinde Hannover
Ev. Kirchengemeinde St. Johannis, Neustadt/Orla
Ev. Kirchengemeinde St. Marien, Torgau
Ev. Predigerseminar Wittenberg
Fondation Bemberg, Toulouse
Fränkische Galerie, Kronach
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Historisches Museum, Regensburg
Hochstift Meißen, Dom zu Meißen
Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Kloster Lichtenthal, Baden-Baden
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Kulturhistorisches Museum, Magdeburg
Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz
Kunsthalle Bremen
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg
Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, Besançon
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar
Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Museum Haldensleben
Museum im Roselius-Haus, Bremen
Muzeum Archidiecezjalne, Wroclaw
Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw
Muzeum Palac w Wilanowie, Warsaw
Národni Galerie, Prague
Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
Nationalmuseum Stockholm
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena
Ráday Könyvtára a Reformatus Egyházkerület, Budapest
The Royal Collection, London
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart, Wintherthur
Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf, Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Schleswig
Schloss Augustusburg, Augustusburg/Saxony
Sinebrychoffin Taidemuseo, Helsinki
Staatsgalerie im Schloss Johannisburg, Aschaffenburg
Staatsgalerie in der Neuen Residenz, Bamberg
Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, Leipzig
Stadtmuseum Nördlingen
Stiftsbasilika St. Peter u. Alexander, Aschaffenburg
Stiftsmuseum Aschaffenburg
University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto