Founding partners
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Doerner Institut, Munich
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Kunstmuseum Basel
Metropolitan Museum, New York
The National Gallery, London
Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
Prof. Dr. Dieter Koepplin, Basel
Prof. Dr. Ingo Sandner, Dresden
Dr. Werner Schade, Berlin
Associate partners
Anhaltische Gemälde-Galerie, Dessau
C2RMF, Paris
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
Klassik Stiftung, Weimar
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Coburg
Musees royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels
Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, Madrid
Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
Städel Museum, Frankfurt/M.
Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt
Stiftung Preußischer Schlösser und Gärten, Berlin
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein Gotha
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
Thüringisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Weimar
Organisers
Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences
With the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York
Welcome
The Cranach Digital Archive (cda) is an interdisciplinary collaborative research resource, providing access to art historical, technical and conservation information on paintings by Lucas Cranach (c.1472 - 1553) and his workshop. The repository presently provides information on more than 400 paintings including c.5000 images and documents from 19 partner institutions.
Started in 2009 the project is in its second phase (2012 - 2014). In this period the cda aims to expand the existing network, to develop the shared infrastructure and to increase its content in order to build the foundations for an innovative, comprehensive and collaboratively produced repository of knowledge about Lucas Cranach and his workshop that will be significantly different from the traditional model of the single-author catalogue raisonné.
The Cranach Digital Archive is a joint initiative of the Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf and Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences / Cologne University of Applied Sciences in collaboration with nine founding partner institutions, 17 associate partners and many project contributors. The project is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.