Adam van Düren was a master builder and stonemason active in

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at the end of the fifteenth century and the first decades of the sixteenth century (he is attested from about 1487 until about 1532). Adam appears to have been of

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n origin and probably came from the city of

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, alluded to in the byname. He was first active at the building of the choir of

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(about 1487–1498), and has been identified as one of two masons whose style is clearly recognisable in the ornaments there. He was probably the architect of the fortified house of Glimmingehus. His signature ADAM and the year 1505 is included in a relief at the third floor of Glimmingehus showing the owner of the house,

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, and his two wives in front of the crucified Christ, but his style can be recognised in several other reliefs in the building. He later restored the crypt of Lund Cathedral, where he, among other things, installed drain pipes under the floor to prevent flooding. He was briefly active in

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in 1520–21, where he built a chapel in the south-eastern part of the Church of St. Nicolas (

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), where he also added an inscribed relief on a pillar, depicting an eel and two lions.

References

*Rydbeck, Otto: van Düren, Adam", ''Svenskt biografiskt lexikon'', vol. 11, p. 694-697. *Weibull, Lauritz, "Adam van Düren", in: ''Studier i Lunds domkyrkas historia'', Lund, 1906 {{DEFAULTSORT:Duren, Adam Van Danish stonemasons 15th-century Danish sculptors 16th-century Danish sculptors Swedish male sculptors 15th-century Swedish people 16th-century Swedish artists 15th-century German sculptors German male sculptors 16th-century German sculptors Danish architects Swedish architects 16th-century German architects