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Albrecht Altdorfer

1480 - 1538

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Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480—12 February 1538) was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg, Bavaria. Along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is regarded to be the main representative of the Danube School, setting biblical and historical subjects against landscape backgrounds of expressive colours. He is remarkable as one of the first artists to take an interest in landscape as an independent subject. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albrecht Altdorfer has received more than 236,412 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Albrecht Altdorfer is the 147th most popular painter (down from 129th in 2019), the 333rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 297th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Painter.

Albrecht Altdorfer is most famous for his painting, "The Battle of Alexander at Issus."

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Albrecht Altdorfer ranks 147 out of 2,023. Before him are Robert Delaunay, Tamara de Lempicka, Pontormo, Umberto Boccioni, Charles Le Brun, and Theo van Gogh. After him are Suzanne Valadon, Emil Nolde, André Derain, Eugène Boudin, Jean-Léon Gérôme, and Otto Dix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1480, Albrecht Altdorfer ranks 5. Before him are Ferdinand Magellan, Lucrezia Borgia, Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, and Matthias Grünewald. After him are Johann Georg Faust, Lorenzo Lotto, Joachim Patinir, Philibert II, Duke of Savoy, Saint Cajetan, Götz von Berlichingen, and Palma Vecchio. Among people deceased in 1538, Albrecht Altdorfer ranks 2. Before him is Hatice Sultan. After him are Diego de Almagro, Andrea Gritti, Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy, Elena Glinskaya, Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire, Charles II, Duke of Guelders, Askia Mohammad I, Estêvão Gomes, and Saadet I Giray.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albrecht Altdorfer ranks 333 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781), August Kekulé (1829), Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744), Einhard (770), Karl Haushofer (1869), and Fritz Sauckel (1894). After him are Adolf von Baeyer (1835), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Adolf Butenandt (1903), Ferdinand I of Romania (1865), Ferdinand Schörner (1892), and Emil Nolde (1867).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Albrecht Altdorfer ranks 11. Before him are Max Ernst (1891), Matthias Grünewald (1480), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), Hans Memling (1435), Franz Marc (1880), and Hans von Aachen (1552). After him are Emil Nolde (1867), Otto Dix (1891), Anselm Kiefer (1945), Hans Baldung (1484), Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515), and Gerhard Richter (1932).

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