Lucas Cranach Dattijon
Lucas Cranach mai zane ne ɗan ƙasar Jamus, wanda ke samar da zane ta hanyar sassaka itace/katako. Ya aka haifesa mai Jamus fenta. Ya kasance mai zane na fada ga Mazabar Saxonomy na iya tsawon sana'arsa. Kuma yayi fice ta hanyar zanensa na 'ya'yan sarakunan Jamus da kuma shuwagabannin Protestant Reformation. Ya kasance babban abokin Martin Luther.Cranach kuma ya zana batutuwan addini, na farko a al'adar Katolika, kuma daga baya yana ƙoƙarin nemo sabbin hanyoyin isar da damuwar addini na Lutheran a cikin fasaha. Ya ci gaba da yin fenti na tsiraici da aka zana daga tatsuniyoyi da addini.

Cranach yana da babban taron bita kuma yawancin ayyukansa sun kasance a cikin nau'i daban-daban; dansa Lucas Cranach the Younger da sauransu sun ci gaba da ƙirƙirar nau'ikan ayyukan mahaifinsa shekaru da yawa bayan mutuwarsa. An yi la'akari da shi a matsayin mafi nasara a Jamus mai fasaha a lokacinsa.

Rayuwar farko 
An haife shi a Kronach a babban birnin Franconia (yanzu tsakiyar Jamus ), mai yiwuwa a cikin 1472. Ba a san takamaiman ranar haihuwarsa ba. Ya koyi fasahar zane daga mahaifinsa Hans Maler ( sunan sunansa ma'ana "mai zane" kuma yana nuna sana'arsa, ba zuriyarsa ba, bisa ga lokaci da aji).  Mahaifiyarsa, mai suna Hübner, ta mutu a 1491. Daga baya, an yi amfani da sunan wurin haifuwarsa don sunan mahaifinsa, wata al'adar zamanin. Yadda aka horar da Cranach ba a san shi ba, amma yana yiwuwa tare da mashawarcin kudancin Jamus, kamar yadda yake tare da Matthias Grünewald na zamani, wanda ya yi aiki a Bamberg da Aschaffenburg (Bamberg shine babban birnin diocese wanda Kronach ke kwance).  Akwai kuma shawarwarin cewa Cranach ya ɗan yi ɗan lokaci a Vienna a kusa da 1500.

Daga 1504 zuwa 1520 ya zauna a wani gida a kudu maso yamma kusurwar kasuwa a Wittenberg .  A cewar Gunderam (mai koyar da yaran Cranach), Cranach ya nuna basirarsa a matsayin mai zane kafin ƙarshen karni na 15. Sa'an nan aikinsa ya ja hankalin Duke Frederick III, Zaɓaɓɓen Saxony, wanda aka sani da Frederick the Wise, wanda ya haɗa Cranach zuwa kotunsa a 1504. Bayanan Wittenberg sun tabbatar da bayanin Gunderam har zuwa wannan: sunan Cranach ya bayyana a karon farko a cikin asusun jama'a a ranar 24 ga Yuni 1504, lokacin da ya zana gulden 50 don albashi na rabin shekara, a matsayin mai hoto ducalis ("Mai zanen Duke). ").  Cranach ya kasance ya ci gaba da hidimar Zaɓe da waɗanda suka gaje shi har tsawon rayuwarsa, ko da yake ya iya yin wasu ayyuka.

Cranach ya auri Barbara Brengbier, 'yar wani burger Gotha kuma an haife ta a can; Ta mutu a Wittenberg a ranar 26 ga Disamba 1540. Daga baya Cranach ya mallaki gida a Gotha,  amma mai yiwuwa ya san Barbara kusa da Wittenberg, inda danginta kuma suka mallaki gida, wanda daga baya kuma na Cranach ne.

Sana'a 
Shaidar farko ta fasahar Cranach a matsayin mai zane ta zo a cikin hoto mai kwanan wata 1504. A farkon aikinsa ya kasance yana aiki a rassa da yawa na sana'arsa: wani lokaci mai zanen ado, ya fi yawan samar da hotuna da altarpieces, yankan katako, zane-zane, da zayyana tsabar kudi ga masu zabe.

Manazarta

Mai zane-zanen Jamus