Hans Krumpper was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 sculptor, plasterer

Plasterer

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, architect

Architect

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 and intendant

Intendant

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 of the arts who served the Bavaria

Bavaria

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n dukes

Duke

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 William V.

William V, Duke of Bavaria

William V, Duke of Bavaria , called the Pious, was Duke of Bavaria from 1579 to 1597.- Education and early life :...

 and Maximilian I.

Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria

Maximilian I, Duke/Elector of Bavaria , called "the Great", was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years' War ....

Krumpper worked for the Bavarian court since 1584, in 1599 he became the successor of Friedrich Sustris

Friedrich Sustris

Friedrich Sustris was a German-Dutch painter, decorator and architect. He was a son of the artist Lambert Sustris, who worked in Italy....

 and in 1609 he became the chief sculptor to the court.
He was strongly influenced by the Italian and Dutch mannerism

Mannerism

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 and became the creator of the first self-contained Bavarian Early Baroque

Baroque

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 sculptures.

Among his masterpieces are the Old Residence

Residenz, Munich

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 in Munich and the Tomb monument of Emperor Louis IV in the Munich Frauenkirche

Munich Frauenkirche

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. His main work, the church of the minims

Minim (religious order)

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in Munich was demolished in 1902.