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Anni Albers

1899 - 1994

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Anni Albers (born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann; June 12, 1899 – May 9, 1994) was a German-Jewish visual artist and printmaker. A leading textile artist of the 20th century, she is credited with blurring the lines between traditional craft and art. Born in Berlin in 1899, Fleischmann initially studied under impressionist painter Martin Brandenburg from 1916 to 1919 and briefly attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg in 1919. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anni Albers has received more than 393,691 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Anni Albers is the 1,396th most popular painter (down from 927th in 2019), the 3,713th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,582nd in 2019) and the 124th most popular German Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Anni Albers ranks 1,396 out of 2,023. Before her are Edward Robert Hughes, Adolph Gottlieb, Ludwig Emil Grimm, Vilhelms Purvītis, Virgil Solis, and Jesús Rafael Soto. After her are Austin Osman Spare, Giusto de' Menabuoi, Óscar Domínguez, Karl Hofer, Igor Grabar, and Jan Mostaert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Anni Albers ranks 168. Before her are Aleksander Klumberg, Rudolf Svensson, Silvestre Revueltas, Bernhard Rogge, Aleksandr Deyneka, and Helge Ingstad. After her are Charles Best, Harold Osborn, Edward Chamberlin, Kamala Nehru, Haddon Sundblom, and Weegee. Among people deceased in 1994, Anni Albers ranks 178. Before her are Kurt Aland, Paul Grimault, Dmitri Ivanenko, Roy J. Plunkett, Albert Shesternyov, and Givi Chokheli. After her are Boris Yegorov, Robert Jungk, Vladimir Melanin, Ivan Sidorenko, Luis Donaldo Colosio, and Carmen McRae.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anni Albers ranks 3,713 out of 7,253. Before her are Ernst Lehner (1912), Gustav von Wangenheim (1895), Virgil Solis (1514), Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824), Otto Waalkes (1948), and Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1685). After her are Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1583), Marc Forster (1969), Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880), Franz von Paula Schrank (1747), Jean-Marc Barr (1960), and Sylvia Nasar (1947).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Anni Albers ranks 124. Before her are Peter von Hess (1792), Christian Schad (1894), Edgar Ende (1901), A. R. Penck (1939), Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790), and Virgil Solis (1514). After her are Karl Hofer (1878), Jan Boeckhorst (1604), Hermann Zapf (1918), Alexander Kanoldt (1881), Cosmas Damian Asam (1686), and Jörg Immendorff (1945).

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