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Claus Sluter ( born 1340s in Haarlem ; died in 1405 or 1406, Dijon ) was a sculptor of Dutch origin.

He was the most important northern European sculptor of his age and is considered a pioneer of the " northern realism " of the Early Netherlandish painting that came into full flower with the work of Jan van Eyck and others in the next generation.