20 June 2022
Over the last four years the Germanische Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg and the TH Cologne have examined 726 Luther portraits from the period between 1519 and 1530 to classify the great variety of these portraits. The result is a comprehensive catalogue that is freely accessible online within the Cranach Digital Archive.
The portraits of Martin Luther are known worldwide. Numerous motifs were created by Lucas Cranach the Elder: Luther as a Pious Monk, as Junker Jörg, as the reformer or as a husband together with his wife Katharina of Bora.
The catalogue containts an introduction and
as well as information on methodology, and a concordance/bibliographuy.
Go here to access the critical catalogue of Luther Portraits 1519-1530.
