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Anna Ancher

1859 - 1935

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Anna Ancher (18 August 1859 – 15 April 1935) was a Danish artist associated with the Skagen Painters, an artist colony on the northern point of Jylland, Denmark. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Ancher has received more than 170,008 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Anna Ancher is the 368th most popular painter (up from 428th in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 128th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Danish Painter.

Anna Ancher is most famous for her paintings of the Danish countryside.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Anna Ancher ranks 368 out of 2,023. Before her are Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Elisabetta Sirani, Abraham Bloemaert, Balthus, Jan Gossaert, and Maarten van Heemskerck. After her are Paul Sérusier, Norman Rockwell, Willem Claesz. Heda, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Francesco Melzi, and Émile Bernard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Anna Ancher ranks 24. Before her are George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Jerome K. Jerome, Pierre Janet, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Hugo Junkers, and Alexander Samsonov. After her are Venustiano Carranza, Francisco Ferrer, Bertha Pappenheim, Pavel Milyukov, Francesc Macià, and Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant. Among people deceased in 1935, Anna Ancher ranks 37. Before her are Oda Krohg, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Johan Halvorsen, Panait Istrati, John Macleod, and Aron Nimzowitsch. After her are Paul Bourget, Rashid Rida, Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, Magnus Hirschfeld, Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, and Ma Barker.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Anna Ancher ranks 116 out of 1,032. Before her are Sophia Magdalena of Denmark (1746), Nicolai Abildgaard (1743), Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873), Boetius of Dacia (1240), Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (1878), and Jussi Adler-Olsen (1950). After her are Martin Andersen Nexø (1869), Sweyn III of Denmark (1125), Erik Bruhn (1928), Prince Valdemar of Denmark (1858), Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891), and Asger Jorn (1914).

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Among PAINTERS In Denmark

Among painters born in Denmark, Anna Ancher ranks 6. Before her are Lili Elbe (1882), Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark (1656), Gerda Wegener (1886), Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864), and Nicolai Abildgaard (1743). After her are Asger Jorn (1914), Michael Ancher (1849), Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783), Carl Bloch (1834), Jens Juel (1745), and Marie Krøyer (1867).

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