Heinrich parler the elder biography

German master-masons working in Swabia and Bohemia in C14 and early C15. Heinrich I (c. 1300–1371) was Parlier (foreman with responsibility for a Mason's lodge) at Cologne Cathedral, when the choir was completed c.1322, but other works proceeded very slowly.

Heinrich Parler the Elder, was a German architect and sculptor.

Little is known about the earliest youth of Peter Parler.

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He moved to Schwäbisch-Gmünd where he built the nave (from c.1330) and (probably) the choir (designed on hall-church principles) of the Stadtkirche zum Heiligen Kreuz (Town Church of Holy Cross), one of the most influential buildings of the Sondergotik style.

He may have worked on the choir of the Cathedral at Augsburg, the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) at Nuremberg, and the Minster at Ulm.

Peter Parler (1333/5–99), son of Heinrich, is the most celebrated of the tribe.

He worked at Schwäbisch-Gmünd, Cologne Cathedral (possibly), and the Frauenkirche at Nuremberg before being summoned to Prague in 1356 by Kaiser Karl IV (1346–78) to work on the Cathedral of St Vitus (Veit), begun in 1344 by Matth