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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Kraft has received more than 47,006 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Adam Kraft is the 122nd most popular sculptor (down from 104th in 2019), the 2,674th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,320th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Sculptor.

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  • 18

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  • 5.90

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  • 1.89

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Adam Kraft ranks 122 out of 189Before him are Hendrick de Keyser, Jules Dalou, Carl Milles, Silvio Gazzaniga, Antoine Coysevox, and Giacomo Manzù. After him are Yevgeny Vuchetich, Auguste Clésinger, Medardo Rosso, Bartolomeo Bon, Cephisodotus the Younger, and Henri Laurens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1450, Adam Kraft ranks 34Before him are Marin Barleti, Yunus Pasha, Ercole de' Roberti, Sikandar Lodi, Yuriy Drohobych, and Bartolomeo Montagna. After him are Gregory III of Constantinople, Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara, Nephon II of Constantinople, Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Carlo II Tocco, and Zidanta II. Among people deceased in 1509, Adam Kraft ranks 7Before him are Henry VII of England, Caterina Sforza, Lady Margaret Beaufort, 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 2,674 out of 6,142Before him are Guido Westerwelle (1961), Franz Lachner (1803), Christa Schroeder (1908), Heidi Brühl (1942), Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke (1819), and Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony (1443). After him are Gerardus Vossius (1577), Rudolf Klein-Rogge (1885), Martin Walser (1927), Carl Brockelmann (1868), Sigmar Gabriel (1959), and John II, Count Palatine of Simmern (1492).

Among SCULPTORS In Germany

Among sculptors born in Germany, Adam Kraft ranks 8Before 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), Rudolf Belling (1886), Georg Kolbe (1877), Eva Hesse (1936), Gerhard Marcks (1889), and Martin Kippenberger (1953).