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Adolph Menzel

1815 - 1905

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Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (8 December 1815 – 9 February 1905) was a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings. Along with Caspar David Friedrich, he is considered one of the two most prominent German painters of the 19th century, and was the most successful artist of his era in Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolph Menzel has received more than 288,684 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Adolph Menzel is the 21st most popular artist (up from 22nd in 2019), the 182nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 130th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Artist.

Adolph Menzel is most famous for his paintings of the life of Frederick the Great.

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Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Adolph Menzel ranks 21 out of 125. Before him are Roy Lichtenstein, Theo van Doesburg, El Lissitzky, Luca Signorelli, Marina Abramović, and Kurt Schwitters. After him are Keith Haring, Josef Albers, David Hockney, Banksy, Ai Weiwei, and Émile Gallé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Adolph Menzel ranks 8. Before him are John Bosco, Ada Lovelace, George Boole, Karl Weierstrass, Otto of Greece, and Louis-Jules Trochu. After him are Johann Jakob Bachofen, Ildefons Cerdà, Thomas Couture, Julia Margaret Cameron, Ľudovít Štúr, and Josip Juraj Strossmayer. Among people deceased in 1905, Adolph Menzel ranks 11. Before him are Ernst Abbe, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Per Teodor Cleve, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, and Louise Michel. After him are Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, Carl Wernicke, Albert Edelfelt, Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, Élisée Reclus, and Walther Flemming.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Adolph Menzel ranks 182 out of 1,694. Before him are Grzegorz Lato (1950), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Casimir I the Restorer (1016), Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866), Günter Blobel (1936), and Benzion Netanyahu (1910). After him are Solomon Asch (1907), Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915), Catherine Opalińska (1680), Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030), and Ernst Kummer (1810).

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Among ARTISTS In Poland

Among artists born in Poland, Adolph Menzel ranks 1. After him are Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874).

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