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

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