Anton Pilgram: Life and Legacy Early Life and Training Born: Around 1460 in Brno (present-day Czech Republic). Pilgram’s early life remains somewhat obscure, but it is believed he received his initial training as a stonemason in Vienna. In 1481, he was invited to Heilbronn, Germany, where he began his career with the construction of a chancel at the St. Kilian Church – though recent research questions his direct involvement in…