Ground-breaking Cranach show sheds light on Soviet ‘trophy art’

An exhibition that reunites for the first time several Soviet-seized works by the 16th-century German court painter Lucas Cranach with those from the Friedenstein Castle in Gotha, Germany—from where they were confiscated following the Second World War—runs at Moscow’s State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts through 15 May.The exhibition brings together 48 paintings and more than 50 graphic works by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his son from Gotha’s Friedenstein Castle and the Pu