Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

The exhibition ‘Considering the Collection & Cranach's Holy Productivity An Insert by Klaus Scherübel’ shows highlights from the Paintings Gallery's collection – from Bosch to Rubens – including works related to the insert by contemporary artist Klaus Scherübel. Focusing on the Baroque period, the exhibition presents a cross-section of the core of the collection. It also focuses on the development of representations of space in early modern painting north and south of the Alps, the work of the Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder, portraits and self-portraits of artists in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the use of architectural fragments in Baroque painting. These topics refer to Scherübel’s insert ‘Cranachs's Holy Productivity Vol. 28’. In his current project, the Montreal-based Austrian artist deals with modes of depicting space and architecture in connection with questions of artists’ self-portrayals and strategies of productivity using as example the painting ‘The Holy Kinship’ by Lucas Cranach the Elder, one of the most important painters of the German Renaissance and Reformation.

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