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Andreas Gursky

1955 - Today

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Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often using a high point of view. His works reach some of the highest prices in the art market among living photographers. His photograph Rhein II was sold for $4,338,500 on 8 November 2011.Gursky shares a studio with Laurenz Berges, Thomas Ruff and Axel Hütte on the Hansaallee, in Düsseldorf. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andreas Gursky has received more than 614,435 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Andreas Gursky is the 39th most popular photographer (up from 65th in 2019), the 2,374th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,227th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Photographer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Andreas Gurskies by language

Over the past year Andreas Gursky has had the most page views in the with 43,229 views, followed by German (30,533), and Italian (10,995). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Persian (678.63%), Piedmontese (366.29%), and Occitan (347.44%)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Andreas Gursky ranks 39 out of 148. Before him are Claude Cahun, Edward Weston, Lewis Hine, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Wilhelm Brasse, and Peter Lindbergh. After him are Philippe Halsman, Astrid Kirchherr, Carl Van Vechten, Paul Strand, Josef Sudek, and Oliviero Toscani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Andreas Gursky ranks 119. Before him are Brigitte Lahaie, Mariya Takeuchi, Zbigniew Preisner, Gloria Guida, Mulatu Teshome, and John de Mol Jr.. After him are Rolf Lassgård, Mayumi Tanaka, Horacio Pagani, Anton Corbijn, John Roberts, and Kevin Peter Hall.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Andreas Gursky ranks 2,374 out of 7,253. Before him are Martin Lawrence (1965), Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (1922), Franz Six (1909), Hans Cramer (1896), Udo Lindenberg (1946), and Gundula Janowitz (1937). After him are Rudolf Klein-Rogge (1885), John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony (1529), Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780), Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1735), Otto Pfister (1937), and Klaus Allofs (1956).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among photographers born in Germany, Andreas Gursky ranks 7. Before him are Helmut Newton (1920), Heinrich Hoffmann (1885), Gunter Sachs (1932), Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856), August Sander (1876), and Guillermo Kahlo (1871). After him are Astrid Kirchherr (1938), Erich Salomon (1886), Gisèle Freund (1908), Karl Blossfeldt (1865), Lothar Wolleh (1930), and Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897).

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