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Adam Elsheimer

1578 - 1610

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Adam Elsheimer (18 March 1578 – 11 December 1610) was a German artist working in Rome, who died at only thirty-two, but was very influential in the early 17th century in the field of Baroque paintings. His relatively few paintings were small-scale, nearly all painted on copper plates, of the type often known as cabinet paintings. They include a variety of light effects, and an innovative treatment of landscape. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Elsheimer has received more than 119,908 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 29 in 2019). Adam Elsheimer is the 422nd most popular painter (down from 382nd in 2019), the 1,154th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,073rd in 2019) and the 35th most popular German Painter.

Adam Elsheimer was a German painter and draftsman who is most famous for his landscapes and portraits.

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  • 28

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  • 7.98

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Adam Elsheimer ranks 422 out of 2,023. Before him are Karel Appel, Isaac Levitan, Jan Matsys, Pieter Lastman, Bernard Buffet, and Marianne von Werefkin. After him are Theophanes the Greek, Enrique Simonet, Lovis Corinth, Anna Maria van Schurman, Yves Tanguy, and Mikhail Vrubel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1578, Adam Elsheimer ranks 6. Before him are Philip III of Spain, Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, William Harvey, François Ravaillac, and Francesco Albani. After him are Fede Galizia, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, Agostino Tassi, Benedetto Castelli, and Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari. Among people deceased in 1610, Adam Elsheimer ranks 7. Before him are Caravaggio, Henry IV of France, Matteo Ricci, Ludolph van Ceulen, François Ravaillac, and Honda Tadakatsu. After him are False Dmitry II, Catherine Vasa of Sweden, Anna of Sweden, Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, Hasegawa Tōhaku, and Duchess Sophie of Prussia.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adam Elsheimer ranks 1,154 out of 7,253. Before him are Lorenz von Stein (1815), Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1792), Karl von Bülow (1846), Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (1892), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752), and Josef Terboven (1898). After him are Theodelinda (570), Franz Karl Achard (1753), Carl Clauberg (1898), Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal (1855), Johann Jakob Froberger (1616), and Johann van Beethoven (1740).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Adam Elsheimer ranks 35. Before him are Joseph Karl Stieler (1781), Stefan Lochner (1410), Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Oskar Schlemmer (1888), Max Klinger (1857), and Lucian Freud (1922). After him are Anna Maria van Schurman (1607), Erich Heckel (1883), Konrad Witz (1400), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884), Anselm Feuerbach (1829), and Hans Holbein the Elder (1465).

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