Heinrich IV. Parler

He is the best-known sculptor of the Parler family,[2] a german family of stonemasons, construction foremen and architects whose members strongly influenced the Gothic style in German countries, Bohemia,[3] Austria and northern Italy.

He is likely the son of Johann Parler the Elder and the brother of Michel of Freibourg.

[1] We have traces of his activity in Schwäbisch Gmünd through a statue of Christ carrying the Cross.

[2] We know of him the tombstones of Bretislav I and Spytihněv II in the central chapel of the cathedral (1373) and the busts of the triforium.

[5] A bust kept at the Schnütgen Museum is attributed to Heinrich:[5][2] it depicts a woman, bearing the Parlers seal (1378), representing Eve.