Photos of the Reformation

The Lutheran Journal, Vol. 47, #2, 1980

I provided the journal with a series of photographs dealing with Luther and the Reformation Period of the sixteenth century. They include a portrait of Luther (on the cover) as a serious professor and scholar with his doctor’s degree hat, a painting by Cranach the Elder, 1528; a photograph by the author in Augsburg where the imperial diet of 1530 took place; the title page of The Book of Concord, 1580; a Reformation altarpiece by Cranach the Younger, 1565, village church, Mildensee/Dessau; a detail of Cranach’s epitaph in the City Church in Weimar depicting Luther pointing to the Bible standing next to Cranach the Elder; a detail of Philip Melanchthon from the Reformation Altarpiece in Mildensee/Dessau; a title page "Summary of the Controversial Articles between the Theologians of the Augsburg Confession, "1579; a portrait of the three electors of Saxony: Frederick the Wise, John the Constant, and John Frederick the Benefactor; a painting by John the Constant with sword at the Battle of Frankenhausen, a title page of the Augsburg Confession printed in Wittenberg, 1555; a portrait of John Frederick the Benefactor by Cranach the Elder; and an engraving of Frederick the Wise by Albrecht Duerer, 1524, located in the Lutherhalle-Wittenberg.

Erwin Weber

April, 1997