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Adolf Wölfli

1864 - 1930

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Adolf Wölfli (February 29, 1864 – November 6, 1930) (occasionally spelled Adolf Woelfli or Adolf Wolfli) was a Swiss artist who was one of the first artists to be associated with the Art Brut or outsider art label. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Wölfli has received more than 346,584 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Adolf Wölfli is the 1,115th most popular painter (down from 919th in 2019), the 284th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 244th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Swiss Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Adolf Wölfli ranks 1,115 out of 2,023. Before him are Carlos Schwabe, Jaume Huguet, Constantin Hansen, Nikolai Yaroshenko, Stanisław Szukalski, and Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt. After him are Frank Dicksee, Michiel Sweerts, Varvara Stepanova, Carl Moll, Félix Bracquemond, and Wang Meng.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Adolf Wölfli ranks 87. Before him are Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, George Albert Smith, Robert Lansing, Hedwiga Rosenbaumová, and Roger Casement. After him are Toktogul Satylganov, Ricarda Huch, Tsuda Umeko, Alexander Dutov, Nathan Birnbaum, and George Washington Carver. Among people deceased in 1930, Adolf Wölfli ranks 56. Before him are Emil Krebs, Eugen Goldstein, Lon Chaney, Oku Yasukata, Paul Émile Appell, and Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera. After him are Robert Hennet, Richard Wilhelm, Paul Levi, Oskar Nedbal, Abram Arkhipov, and Giuseppe Morello.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Adolf Wölfli ranks 284 out of 1,015. Before him are Johann II Bernoulli (1710), Karl Schenk (1823), Emer de Vattel (1714), Alexandre Calame (1810), Jakob Dubs (1822), and Arthur Cravan (1887). After him are Kurt Koch (1950), Henri Druey (1799), Carl Lutz (1895), Heinrich Sutermeister (1910), Joseph Deiss (1946), and Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Adolf Wölfli ranks 21. Before him are Théophile Steinlen (1859), Eugène Grasset (1845), Anton Graff (1736), Giovanni Giacometti (1868), Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767), and Alexandre Calame (1810). After him are Cuno Amiet (1868), Salomon Gessner (1730), Bertha Wegmann (1847), Urs Graf (1485), Hans Erni (1909), and Antonio Ciseri (1821).

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