Pilgram, Anton#

b. Brno, Czech Republic (then Bruenn), around 1460, d. Vienna, around 1515, master builder of cathedrals in Vienna, sculptor. After 1487 probably worked in Swabia, 1495 first identifiable from stone cuttings on bays and spiral staircase in St. James´s Church in Bruenn (Brno), documented in the Vienna Lodge of Cathedral Builders from 1512. Finished the organ foot at St. Stephen´s (1513, with his self-portrait). The remarkable pulpit of St. Stephen´s Cathedral (around 1500), which was long considered his work, may not in fact be his, but of older origin. The statuette of the "Falconer" (around 1500, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), attributed to him, with its dynamic movement, combining Renaissance attitudes with late Gothic detail, is also an important work. P. is thought to have died around 1515, which is when Gregor Hauser became his successor as master builder of St. Stephen´s Cathedral.

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