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KRAFFT (or KRAFT), ADAM (c. 1455-1507)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 922 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KRAFFT (or KRAFT), ADAM (c. 1455-1507)  , German sculptor, of the Nuremberg school, was born, probably at Nuremberg, about the
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middle of the 15th century, and died, some say in the hospital, at
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Schwabach, about 1507 . He seems to have emerged as sculptor about 1490, the date of the seven reliefs of scenes from the
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life of Christ, which, like almost every other specimen of his
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work, are at Nuremberg . The date of his last work, an Entombment, with fifteen life-
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size figures, in the Holzschuher
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chapel of the St John's cemetery, is 1507 . Besides these, Krafft's chief
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works are several monumental reliefs in the various churches of Nuremberg; he produced the
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great Schreyer monument (1492) for St Sebald's at Nuremberg, a skilful though mannered piece of sculpture opposite the Rathaus, with realistic figures in the costume of the time, carved in a way more suited to wood than stone, and too pictorial in effect; Christ bearing the
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Cross, above the altar of the same church; and various works made for public and private buildings, as the
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relief over the door of the Wagehaus, a St George and the Dragon, several Madonnas, and some purely decorative pieces, as coats of arms . His master-piece is perhaps the magnificent tabernacle, 62 ft. high, in the church of St Laurence (1493-1500) . He also made the great tabernacle for the
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Host, 8o ft. high, covered with statuettes, in
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Ulm
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Cathedral, and the very spirited " Stations of the Cross " on the road to the Nuremberg cemetery . See Adam Krafft and seine Schule, by Friedrich Wanderer (1869) ; Adam Krafft and die Kiinstler seiner Zeit, by Berthold Daun (1897); Albert Giimbel in Repertorium fu.r Kunstwissenschaft, Bd.
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xxv . Heft 5, 1902 .

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