Albrecht Dürer
1471 - 1528
HPI 89.52158 languages
Albrecht Dürer is most famous for his woodcuts and engravings. He was a German painter, printmaker, and designer.
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Painters from Germany
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Trending Painters from Germany This Week
The top 10 Painters from Germany trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
- #1
Gerhard Richter
b. 1932
Trending in German (#90) Wikipedia (2,627 views, on Aug 16).
- #2
Peter Paul Rubens
1577 - 1640
Trending in Dutch (#195) Wikipedia (269 views, on Aug 16).
This page contains a list of the greatest Germans Painters. The pantheon dataset contains 2,055 Painters, 160 of which were born in Germany. This makes Germany the birth place of the 4th most number of Painters behind France and United States.
Top 10 German Painters
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary German Painters of all time. This list of famous German Painters is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of German Painters.
#1 #2 Peter Paul Rubens
1577 - 1640
HPI 88.29150 languagesPeter Paul Rubens is most famous for his paintings, which are mostly of religious and mythological subjects.
#3 
Caspar David Friedrich
1774 - 1840
HPI 80.3776 languagesCaspar David Friedrich is most famous for his paintings of German landscapes. He is also known for his paintings of mythological scenes.
#4 
Lucas Cranach the Elder
1472 - 1553
HPI 78.7957 languagesLucas Cranach the Elder is most famous for his painting of Adam and Eve, which is also known as "The Garden of Eden".
#5 
Max Ernst
1891 - 1976
HPI 77.6263 languagesMax Ernst was a German painter and graphic artist. He is most famous for his surrealistic paintings.
#6 
Hans Memling
1435 - 1494
HPI 76.2650 languagesHans Memling is most famous for his religious paintings.
#7 
Matthias Grünewald
1480 - 1528
HPI 76.2148 languagesMatthias Grünewald is most famous for his painting, The Crucifixion.
#8 
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880 - 1938
HPI 75.3058 languagesErnst Ludwig Kirchner is most famous for his paintings and drawings of the German town of Davos, Switzerland.
#9 
Franz Marc
1880 - 1916
HPI 75.0060 languagesFranz Marc was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.
#10 
Albrecht Altdorfer
1480 - 1538
HPI 74.9050 languagesAlbrecht Altdorfer is most famous for his painting, "The Battle of Alexander at Issus."
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Overlapping Lives
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