Margrave Georg the Pious of Brandenburg-Ansbach (SPSG, GK I 1048)

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Half-length portrait of Margrave Georg the Pious of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Margrave Georg the Pious of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Lucas Cranach the Elder J. , 1571
94.1 x 77 cm
Grunewald Hunting Lodge , Berlin

The painting Margrave Georg the Pious of Brandenburg-Ansbach (SPSG, GK I 1048) is a work by Lucas Cranach the Younger , which shows the Margrave Georg the Pious with his head covered. It is a panel painting on linden wood from 1571, which is in the painting collection of the Grunewald hunting lodge in Berlin.

description

On the 94.1 × 77 cm painting, Georg the Pious is shown as a half-length figure against a light background, on which his head casts a shadow , creating a spatial dimension. The body of the margrave is wrapped in a black fur-lined coat, which fills more than two-thirds of the picture area. On his head he wears a black hat adorned with golden nestles and a wreath of pearls. A double triple gold chain runs over the upper body; the left hand is ringed. The picture shows the margrave with a voluminous full beard in the habitus of a Protestant prince in simple black clothing.

Is dated the picture of a snake signet with the year 1571 on the right shoulder of the Marquis. The posthumously made portrait of the Margrave, who died in 1543, is apparently based on a study of the face made during his lifetime, which was kept in the Cranach workshop and used by Lucas Cranach the Younger.

With the image of Margrave Georg the Pious of Brandenburg-Ansbach (SPSG, GK I 1192), there is also a variant from 1571 in which the margrave is shown with an uncovered head and hat in hand. This picture gives the viewer the impression of a Protestant prince in spiritual devotion, while the portrait with headgear can be seen as a representative portrait of the ruler.

Variant of the picture without headgear

History of origin

The commissioner of the picture is presumably the son of George the Pious, Margrave Georg Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach . It could have been intended for an ancestral gallery on the Plassenburg . The painting had been in the Ansbach residence since 1786 and came to Berlin in 1811. Today the picture is owned by the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg .

literature

  • 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. 179 .

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