Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg (Lucas Cranach the Younger)

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Portrait of Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg as a life-size half-length figure
Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg
Lucas Cranach the Elder J. , around 1570
112.2 x 88 cm
Grunewald Hunting Lodge , Berlin

The painting Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg is a work by Lucas Cranach the Younger showing Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg . It is a panel painting on linden wood from around 1570 that is in the painting collection of the Grunewald hunting lodge in Berlin.

description

On the 112.2 cm × 88 cm painting, Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg is shown as an almost life - size half - figure against a light background. He wears a brightly colored robe and a fur vest over it. Two chains with pendants hang on the chest. He is holding a rosary in his left hand . On his head he wears a high fur hat decorated with a Christ monogram , which was unusual for a German costume at the time. Research showed that it was a Polish garment. It is believed that Joachim II wanted to express the affinity of the Electorate of Brandenburg to the Polish King Sigismund II August , who was his brother-in-law .

The age portrait shows the elector with an expression of determination and a sense of power. It is presented in a splendid representational style that the Hohenzollern had developed during this time due to their outstanding position in the empire . Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg is not shown in the habitus of a Protestant prince in simple black clothing, although he publicly proclaimed his Lutheran creed in 1563 .

The painting was presumably in the Potsdam City Palace since 1699 and verifiably in the Berlin Palace from 1793 . Today it is owned by the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg .

Up until the 20th century it was believed that the portrait represented Johann von Küstrin , the brother of Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg.

exhibition

  • October 31, 2009 to January 24, 2010: Cranach and the art of the Renaissance under the Hohenzollerns Berlin, Charlottenburg Palace , New Wing.
  • Permanently in the Grunewald hunting lodge

See also

literature

  • Helmut Börsch-Supan : The paintings in the Grunewald hunting lodge , Berlin 1964, p. 49/50, no. 53.
  • Werner Schade : The Cranach family of painters , Dresden 1974, fig. 234.
  • Helmut Börsch-Supan, Jürgen Julier: 450 years of Grunewald hunting lodge, 1542–1992 . State Palaces and Gardens, Berlin 1992, p. 20–22 ( books.google.de - No full page access).
  • Gerd Bartoschek, Ruben Rebmann, Elke Anna Werner: Cranach and the art of the Renaissance under the Hohenzollern: Church, courtyard and urban culture - An exhibition by the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation in Berlin-Brandenburg in cooperation with the Evangelical Church Congregation St. Petri - St. Marien . Ed .: Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg, State Museums in Berlin. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-06910-7 , pp. 173-175 .
  • Andreas Tacke : History is made: on the metamorphoses of an image of a ruler. The depictions of Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg from the 16th to the 20th century. in: Johanna Aufreit (Hrsg.): KunstKritikGeschichte: Festschrift for Johann Konrad Eberlein . Reimer Dietrich Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3496014829 , pp. 353–372 ( digitized version ) (PDF)
  • Matthias Müller: return of mimesis. The courtly portrait painting of Lucas Cranach the Younger after 1550 as a paradigmatic reorientation of the 'Cranach Style' , in: Lucas Cranach the Younger and the Reformation of Images , cat. Munich 2015, pp. 266–279, here pp. 271f., Note 19 and 20th

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cranach and the art of the Renaissance under the Hohenzollern. zum.de, accessed on September 29, 2018 .