![]() The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is regarded as one of the most outstanding museums in the US. LACMA director Michael Govan says that the exhibition provides a "unique opportunity to experience the greatest achievements of German Renaissance art in southern California." The organizers of the show also hope to attract new audiences that may not be that familiar with the events of the era and how they were reflected in art. The exhibition hopes to reach a diverse audience by providing such varied insights into the religious, social and political upheavals of the times. These include works by Dürer, Cranach, Holbein, Riemenschneider and Grünewald. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will host the exhibition until March 26 Image: picture-alliance/Richard Cummi ![]() The art show resulting from the collaboration between the three museums is impressive, breathing new life into this multifaceted era with about 120 paintings, drawings, sculptures and more. ![]() The exhibition in Los Angeles tells the story of how the Reformation created a lasting impact on central European culture and beyond." They say that there was a great deal of disagreement among artists at the time: "Our collections demonstrate the rich variety of ways in which artists were searching for new means of expression. ![]() Michael Eissenhauer (National Museums in Berlin), Hartwig Fischer (Dresden State Art Collections) und Bernhard Maaz (Bavarian State Painting Collections) stress in a joint statement that artworks from this era rate among the most important chapters of German and of European art and cultural history. If it wasn't for these loans from their abundant collections, the exhibition in California would not have been possible. The show in Los Angeles, however, only focuses on the changes that the art world underwent at the time.Īccording to the directors of the three German museums that provided artworks on loan to LACMA - the National Museums in Berlin, the Dresden State Art Collections and the Bavarian State Painting Collections -, the intellectual revolution of the Reformation was not contained within theological or philosophical motivations. Lucas Cranach the Younger painted Adam and Eve in 1537 Image: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister/Hans-Peter KlutĪs the Martin Luther anniversary year, marking 500 years since he pinned his 95 theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg, gets underway, three other US exhibitions in New York, Atlanta and Minneapolis, highlight Martin Luther's role in history. The exhibit uses key pieces of German art from the 16th century to narrate this. The show aims to shed new light on this historic age, which was largely defined by the impact of the Protestant Reformation and its ripple effects. The exhibition "Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach" opened at LACMA on November 20. Nonetheless, the same influences that characterized European art at the time also went on to be incorporated into American cultural history. Christopher Columbus only made it to the shores of America in 1492 - the same era when these artworks were created in Europe. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has brought European masterpieces to California that predate the discovery of America.
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