The Most Famous
PAINTERS from Luxembourg
This page contains a list of the greatest Luxembourger Painters. The pantheon dataset contains 2,023 Painters, 1 of which were born in Luxembourg. This makes Luxembourg the birth place of the 61st most number of Painters behind Algeria, and Afghanistan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Luxembourger Painters of all time. This list of famous Luxembourger Painters is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Edward Steichen (1879 - 1973)
With an HPI of 58.89, Edward Steichen is the most famous Luxembourger Painter. His biography has been translated into 34 different languages on wikipedia.
Edward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator. He is considered among the most important figures in the history of photography. Steichen was credited with transforming photography into an art form. His photographs appeared in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine Camera Work more often than anyone else during its publication run from 1903 to 1917. Stieglitz hailed him as "the greatest photographer that ever lived". As a pioneer of fashion photography, Steichen's gown images for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911 were the first modern fashion photographs to be published. From 1923 to 1938, Steichen served as chief photographer for the Condé Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair, while also working for many advertising agencies, including J. Walter Thompson. During these years, Steichen was regarded as the most popular and highest-paid photographer in the world. After the United States' entry into World War II, Steichen was invited by the United States Navy to serve as Director of the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit. In 1944, he directed the war documentary The Fighting Lady, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 17th Academy Awards. From 1947 to 1961, Steichen served as Director of the Department of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art. While there, he curated and assembled exhibits including the touring exhibition The Family of Man, which was seen by nine million people. In 2003, the Family of Man photographic collection was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in recognition of its historical value. In February 2006, a print of Steichen's early pictorialist photograph, The Pond–Moonlight (1904), sold for US$2.9 million—at the time, the highest price ever paid for a photograph at auction. A print of another photograph of the same style, The Flatiron (1904), became the second most expensive photograph ever on November 8, 2022, when it was sold for $12,000,000, at Christie's New York – well above the original estimate of $2,000,000-$3,000,000.
2. Jean Jacoby (1891 - 1936)
With an HPI of 45.32, Jean Jacoby is the 2nd most famous Luxembourger Painter. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Jean Lucien Nicolas Jacoby (March 26, 1891 – September 9, 1936) was a Luxembourg artist. He won Olympic gold medals in the Olympic art competitions of 1924 and 1928, making him the most successful Olympic artist ever.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Luxembourger painters born between 1879 and 1891. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Luxembourger painters include Edward Steichen, and Jean Jacoby. As of April 2024, 1 new Luxembourger painters have been added to Pantheon including Jean Jacoby.
