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...From Hieronymus Bosch to Picasso, the author explores the lives and times of famous artists and the hot issues that caused them to turn their hands to political cartoon, savage caricature and posterish polemic. Hundreds of black-and-white illustrations do justice to the likes of Jacques Callot, Lucas Cranach, George Cruikshank, Daumier, Courbet, Rouault, Käthe Kollwitz and George Grosz. Fascinating, especially for an age of rage, despair and pungent partisanship...
...place. The place was Hamburg's Kunsthalle, and the occasion the celebration of its 100th anniversary. The result was the realization that Meister Francke, an altar painter who worked in Hamburg around the year 1420, has far better claim than his later compatriots, Dürer, Cranach or Grünewald, to the title of Germany's first great artist...
Daddy thought it would be nice to give his only daughter a christening present-a painting, say, like the 16th century Madonna and Child by Lucas Cranach. And since Daddy was Nazi Reichsmarshal Hermann Goring, the city of Cologne thought it prudent to turn over the priceless painting. Daughter Edda Göring, now 29, has more or less owned the Madonna ever since, though last week she lost another round in her court fight to keep from returning the painting. Edda's lawyers have already slipped and dodged for 18 years, and she has two appeals left...
...show how some of Durer's contemporaries and followers reacted to this period of artistic transition. The show's four drawings by Grunewald, working within the Late Gothic style, sacrifice the cold solidity of form, which was part of the Renaissance style, to intense emotional expressionism. Lucas Cranach the elder (see his Lucretia as shown here) employed serpentine line and drew expressionistic figures until he came under the influence of Durer's restrained style. He later abandoned his intimate detail for an economic and abstract style, although suggestions of restless Gothic form sneak into Cranach's work as they...
...Treasury Ministry, will soon share in long-term loans of 857 first-rate paintings. While only the residue of vast hoards of some 80,000 art works repatriated after the war, the art bounty, now in gilt frames stacked like storm doors in the cellar, is resplendent with Botticelli, Cranach, Tiepolo and Titian. There are scads of Flemish masters, but not a scrap of canvas from 19th century France, whose artists Hitler scorned as the fathers of decadent modernism...