Adolph Robert Kraus

Who was Adolph Robert Kraus?

Adolph Robert Kraus, known professionally as Robert Kraus, was an American sculptor, born in Zeulenroda, Germany and active in Boston.

Kraus immigrated to the United States in 1881, and is best known for his sculpture of the Boston Massacre Memorial in Boston Common, the winged Victory figures that crowned the towers of Machinery Hall in the Columbian Exposition of 1893, and the Randidge monument in Forest Hills Cemetery. He won the Grand Prize of Rome and was a pensioner of the Prussian government before moving to the United States. His death was hastened by madness induced by failure to complete a sculpture of Belshazzar at the moment of seeing the handwriting on the wall; he died in Danvers, Massachusetts.