Established a new award in honor of Lucas Cranach the Younger

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On the occasion of the upcoming 500th anniversary of the German painter Lucas Cranach the Younger (Lucas Cranach d. J.) Wittenberg (Saxony-Anhalt ) and crowns ( Bayern) established a new international art prize - "Cranach 2.0". In this Thursday, December 12 , reported the municipal authorities of the city of Wittenberg .

Contest participants are invited to look at the work of painter and portrait painter of the Renaissance from the present day and to interpret its artistic heritage in a variety of shapes and forms of visual art - painting, drawing , photography or video art .

Prize fund is 6,000 euros. Detailed information about participation in the competition will be published on 31 January 2014. Artists from Germany , as well as from other countries can apply, including the presentation of a few of their projects until September 2014. At the end of next year will be declared winners of a new award . And in mid- April 2015 Selected works will be exhibited at Wittenberg , where he was born and lived Lucas Cranach the Younger ( 1515-1586 ) and then in Kronach , birthplace of his famous father , painter and graphic artist Lucas Cranach the Elder (Lucas Cranach d. Ä.).