German-born Burchardt Precht traveled to Sweden in 1674 when he was about twenty-three years old to work with the Swedish architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger. Precht worked with Tessin, who had spent some time at the court of Louis XIV, to create designs for furniture, altarpieces, pulpits, and crucifixes, bringing the newly fashionable Baroque style to Sweden. Both Tessin and Precht were influ
