BREMEN, GERMANY – The Paula Modersohn Becker Museum in
Bremen opened the exhibition “Lucas Cranach in Bremen” which runs through
August 23. As the leading member of a German family of artists, Lucas
Cranach was a painter, printmaker and book
illustrator with a most individual manner and a highly successful
business. He was one of the most distinctive artists of the German
Renaissance, court artist to the Saxon electors, a staunch supporter of
the Reformation, and a close friend of Martin Luther. During the course of
his long career, Cranach created striking portraits and expressive
devotional works, propaganda for the Protestant cause, as well as his own
brand of erotic female nude and inventive treatments of biblical,
mythological and classical subjects.