Augustin Cranach
Illustration — The Blinding of St. Paul (1586) oil on Canvas, about 170 x 140 cm Augustin Cranach (1554 — 26 July 1595) was a German painter. He was born and died in Wittenberg, and was the son of Lucas Cranach the Younger and Magdalena Schurff.
Augustin Cranach
Lucas Cranach the Younger and workshop / Probably Augustin Cranach · Wittenberg, Stadtkirche (Germany) · Public domain
- Born
- 1554 · Lutherstadt Wittenberg.
- Died
- 1595 · Lutherstadt Wittenberg.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · city magistrate · jurist · artist · council member
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — The Blinding of St. Paul (1586) oil on Canvas, about 170 x 140 cm Augustin Cranach (1554 — 26 July 1595) was a German painter. He was born and died in Wittenberg, and was the son of Lucas Cranach the Younger and Magdalena Schurff.
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He was the father of Lucas Cranach III. Augustin continued the Cranach family's multi-generational association with Wittenberg, where the family home had served as residence to notable figures including the exiled King Christian II of Denmark and Katharina von Bora before her marriage to Martin Luther. His known surviving work includes The Blinding of St. Paul (1586), an oil on canvas measuring approximately 170 × 140 cm, painted in the Lutheran devotional tradition maintained by his father and grandfather.
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1554
Augustin Cranach was born in 1554 at Lutherstadt Wittenberg.
1595
Augustin Cranach died in 1595 at Lutherstadt Wittenberg.
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