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Adam Kraft

1450 - 1509

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Adam Kraft (or Krafft) (c. 1460? – January 1509) was a German stone sculptor and master builder of the late Gothic period, based in Nuremberg and with a documented career there from 1490. It is not known where Kraft was born and raised; his hand has been claimed to be evident as an assistant in works in Ulm Minster (completed 1471) and the pulpit at Strasbourg Cathedral, completed in 1485. Kraft is believed to have married twice, but is not known to have produced any children. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Kraft is the 129th most popular sculptor (down from 124th in 2019), the 2,975th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,817th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Sculptor.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Adam Kraft ranks 129 out of 258. Before him are Giacomo Manzù, Jules Dalou, Konstantin Somov, Antun Augustinčić, Nikolaus Gerhaert, and Richard Long. After him are Silvio Gazzaniga, Magda Frank, Rebecca Horn, Johan Tobias Sergel, Germain Pilon, and Henri Laurens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1450, Adam Kraft ranks 36. Before him are Basarab II of Wallachia, Bartolomeo Montagna, John of Foix, Viscount of Narbonne, Yunus Pasha, Nephon II of Constantinople, and Yuriy Drohobych. After him are Aelbrecht Bouts, Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara, Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Sharif Ali, Lorenzo Cybo de Mari, and Marfa Boretskaya. Among people deceased in 1509, Adam Kraft ranks 7. Before him are Lady Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII of England, Caterina Sforza, Bernt Notke, João da Nova, and Shen Zhou. After him is John I, Count Palatine of Simmern.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adam Kraft ranks 2,977 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Rose (1795), Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1709), Elga Andersen (1935), Aribert Reimann (1936), Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt (1573), and Rosa Albach-Retty (1874). After him are Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889), Karl Mollweide (1774), Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665), Otto Schniewind (1887), John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1634), and Johann Fust (1400).

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Among SCULPTORS In Germany

Among sculptors born in Germany, Adam Kraft ranks 9. Before him are Tilman Riemenschneider (1460), Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736), Igor Mitoraj (1944), Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764), Adolf von Hildebrand (1847), and Christian Daniel Rauch (1777). After him are Rebecca Horn (1944), Hans Multscher (1400), Clara Westhoff (1878), Georg Kolbe (1877), Rudolf Belling (1886), and Gerhard Marcks (1889).

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