He is best known for influential scenes with landscapes incorporating remarkable effects of distance and atmosphere and for his popular woodcuts. No work is clearly identified by Lucas the elder before he went to Vienna at age 30; he may be the creator of earlier works currently attributed to various anonymous masters. He is sometimes mistakenly associated with the surname of "Sunder" or "Sonder," the family with this name being related to Lucas Cranach through marriage and also having come from the town of Kronach.

Cranach, Lucas, the elder

Biography

Notable Works

Artworks

Portrait of a Woman, after Bernhard Strigel

The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine

Copy of John Frederic the Magnanimous, in Electoral Robes

Copy of John Frederic the Magnanimous, in Electoral Robes

Title-Border with the Story of Salome and St. John the Baptist

Die Propheten alle Deudsch

Book-Plate of Christoph Scheurl

The Creation of Eve

Der Heiligen XII, from the Wittenberg relic-book

Philipp Melanchthon

Portrait of Johann Georg Viberg

Copy of Duke John Ernest of Saxony

Reproduction of Sibylla of Cleves

An Old Woman and a Young Man

Copy of Martin Luther, Full Length

Luke, from The Four Evangelists and Three Apostles Sitting in Rooms