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(2) Hans Cranach
(b Wittenberg, c. 1513; d Bologna, 9 Oct 1537). Painter and draughtsman, son of (1) Lucas Cranach I. The earliest documentary references to him, from 1533 and 1534, concern his receipt of payments for his father. In 1536 Hans was working at the castle in Torgau with his father, brother and other assistants from the Cranach workshop. Only two signed paintings are known: the monogrammed Portrait of a Bearded Man (1534) and the monogrammed Hercules at the Court of Omphale (1537; both Madrid, Mus. Thyssen–Bornemisza). His signature also appears in a sketchbook (Hannover, Kestner-Mus.) with studies in silverpoint of portraits and some landscapes of places seen on route to Italy. This evidence reveals that Hans was trained by his father in Wittenberg and began his brief career in the family workshop, before travelling to Italy. At the time of Hans’s early death, Johann Stigel (1515–62), who became a professor in Wittenberg, eulogized him in a long poem and favourably compared his inventiveness to that of his father.
Part of the Cranach family
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