CRANACH, Wilhelm Lucas von
(b. 1861 Stargard, d. 1918 Berlin)
German painter, interior designer and jewellery designer. After studying in Weimar and Paris, Cranach, a descendant of the 16th-century painter Lucas Cranach the Elder, worked from 1893 as a portrait and landscape painter in Berlin. He also designed interiors for several castles in eastern Germany, including Wartburg castle near Eisenach in Thuringia.
In the 1890s, he turned to gold and silverware designs and became one of the leading jewellery designers of Art Nouveau. His designs were mostly carried out by the Berlin court jewellers Friedländer and Louis Werner. In 1900 he won a gold medal at the World Exposition in Paris for jewellery by Werner.
His monogram on the jewellery was WLC.