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Arnold Böcklin

1827 - 1901

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Arnold Böcklin (16 October 1827 – 16 January 1901) was a Swiss Symbolist painter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arnold Böcklin has received more than 572,331 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Arnold Böcklin is the 121st most popular painter (down from 120th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Switzerland and the 2nd most popular Swiss Painter.

Arnold Böcklin is most famous for his painting "Isle of the Dead."

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Arnold Böcklin ranks 121 out of 2,023. Before him are Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Giorgio de Chirico, Juan Gris, Fernando Botero, Yayoi Kusama, and Apelles. After him are Andrea del Sarto, Gustave Moreau, Parmigianino, Gerrit Dou, Hans Memling, and John Constable.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Arnold Böcklin ranks 2. Before him is Johanna Spyri. After him are Josef Strauss, Francisco Solano López, Ellen G. White, Joseph Lister, Heonjong of Joseon, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, Deodoro da Fonseca, Marcellin Berthelot, William Holman Hunt, and Charles De Coster. Among people deceased in 1901, Arnold Böcklin ranks 7. Before him are Giuseppe Verdi, Queen Victoria, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Victoria, Princess Royal, Johanna Spyri, and Benjamin Harrison. After him are William McKinley, Milan I of Serbia, Charles Hermite, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, and Li Hongzhang.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Arnold Böcklin ranks 25 out of 1,015. Before him are Johann Bernoulli (1667), Alberto Giacometti (1901), Albert Hofmann (1906), Carl Spitteler (1845), Élie Ducommun (1833), and Bruno Ganz (1941). After him are Conrad Gessner (1516), Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Jacob Burckhardt (1818), Erich von Däniken (1935), Jacques Necker (1732), and Joan Gamper (1877).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Arnold Böcklin ranks 2. Before him are Paul Klee (1879). After him are Angelica Kauffman (1741), Johannes Itten (1888), Henry Fuseli (1741), H. R. Giger (1940), Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Félix Vallotton (1865), Albert Anker (1831), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Matthäus Merian (1593), and Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889).

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