SCULPTOR

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Kraft has received more than 51,090 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Adam Kraft is the 124th most popular sculptor (down from 122nd in 2019), the 2,817th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,671st in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Sculptor.

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  • 1.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Adam Kraft ranks 124 out of 258. Before him are Christian Daniel Rauch, Jules Dalou, Richard Long, Anish Kapoor, Georg Rafael Donner, and Daniel Buren. After him are Bryaxis, Carl Milles, Auguste Clésinger, Nicolas Coustou, Silvio Gazzaniga, and Antun Augustinčić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1450, Adam Kraft ranks 35. Before him are Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara, Marin Barleti, John of Foix, Viscount of Narbonne, Yunus Pasha, Sikandar Lodi, and Yuriy Drohobych. After him are Aelbrecht Bouts, Sharif Ali, Nephon II of Constantinople, Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Gregory III of Constantinople, and Pêro Vaz de Caminha. Among people deceased in 1509, Adam Kraft ranks 6. Before him are Henry VII of England, Caterina Sforza, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Bernt Notke, and Shen Zhou. After him are João da Nova, and John I, Count Palatine of Simmern.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adam Kraft ranks 2,817 out of 7,253. Before him are Gustav Schwab (1792), Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808), Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1582), Duke George of Oldenburg (1784), Nikolaus Federmann (1505), and Valentin Weigel (1533). After him are Hermann von Fehling (1812), August Heissmeyer (1897), Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744), Eugen Fischer (1874), Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (1385), and Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889).

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Among SCULPTORS In Germany

Among sculptors born in Germany, Adam Kraft ranks 8. Before him are Tilman Riemenschneider (1460), Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736), Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764), Adolf von Hildebrand (1847), Igor Mitoraj (1944), and Christian Daniel Rauch (1777). After him are Clara Westhoff (1878), Georg Kolbe (1877), Rebecca Horn (1944), Rudolf Belling (1886), Hans Multscher (1400), and Reinhold Begas (1831).

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