Gregor Erhart (c. 1470? – 1540) was a German sculptor who was born at

Ulm Ulm () is the sixth-largest city of the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with around 129,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 60th-largest city. Ulm is located on the eastern edges of the Swabian Jura mountain range, on the up ...

, the son of sculptor

Michel Erhart Michel Erhart ( 1440 to 1445 – after 1522, Ulm) was a German late Gothic sculptor who lived and worked in Ulm. Life Erhart spent his journeyman years in various regions including Konstanz and the Netherlands before finally settling in Ulm ...

. Gregor spent his working career at

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, where he was made master in 1496, and where he died. Attributions of sculpture to his workshop, mixing Late Gothic and Renaissance formulas, are based on a single documented work originally from the

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Kaisheim Abbey, which was lost in World War II.

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1470s births 1540 deaths 15th-century German sculptors German male sculptors 16th-century German sculptors Gothic sculptors Artists from Ulm {{Germany-sculptor-stub

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