Lucas Cranach and his workshop produced many printed and painted portraits of Martin Luther, with whom the artist was well acquainted. In this small panel, the Reformer is shown close up, in three-quarter profile, wearing the distinctive black Protestant vestments. -metmuseum.org
On display at the Lutherstiege Museum, Augsburg, German (DE).
Luther then lived for two weeks in the monastery at St. Anna , which he used as a hostel and base. When, after his refusal to revoke the situation escalated more and more, he fled from here finally out of the city, so as not to be arrested by imperial soldiers. Christoph Langenmantel, canon and Carmelite in St. Anna, and son of Augsburg mayor Georg Langenmantel, who was in office at that time, secretly led him through a secret gate in the city wall on the night of 19-20 October, so that he escaped could. According to tradition, Langenmantel said at the gate to Luther: "down there" , which is why this place is still called today and there was also a corresponding memorial inscription was admitted. On November 25, 1518, Luther sent him a letter of thanks from Wittenberg . -wiki