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Astrid Kirchherr

1938 - 2020

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Astrid Kirchherr ([ˈastʁɪt ˈkɪʁçhɛʁ]; 20 May 1938 – 12 May 2020) was a German photographer and artist known for her association with the Beatles (along with her friends Klaus Voormann and Jürgen Vollmer) and her photographs of the band's original members – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best – during their early days in Hamburg. Kirchherr met artist Stuart Sutcliffe in the Kaiserkeller bar in Hamburg in 1960, where Sutcliffe was playing bass with the Beatles, and was later engaged to him, before his death in 1962. Although Kirchherr shot very few photographs after 1967, her early work has been exhibited in Hamburg, Bremen, London, Liverpool, New York City, Washington, D.C., Tokyo, Vienna, and at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Astrid Kirchherr has received more than 1,165,831 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Astrid Kirchherr is the 41st most popular photographer (up from 44th in 2019), the 2,414th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,462nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Astrid Kirchherr ranks 41 out of 148. Before her are Lewis Hine, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Wilhelm Brasse, Peter Lindbergh, Andreas Gursky, and Philippe Halsman. After her are Carl Van Vechten, Paul Strand, Josef Sudek, Oliviero Toscani, Hippolyte Bayard, and Herb Ritts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Astrid Kirchherr ranks 167. Before her are Oleg Gordievsky, Goh Kun, Luis Artime, Ronny Cox, Alan Dershowitz, and Manuel Sanchís Martínez. After her are Jean-Loup Chrétien, Violetta Villas, Derviş Eroğlu, Myroslav Skoryk, Bennie Muller, and Jacqueline Andere. Among people deceased in 2020, Astrid Kirchherr ranks 153. Before her are Pierre Nkurunziza, Jerry Rawlings, Pentti Linkola, Frances E. Allen, Borys Paton, and Edmund M. Clarke. After her are Mesut Yılmaz, Jean Raspail, Hans Tilkowski, Viktor Ponedelnik, Dyanne Thorne, and Rocky Johnson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Astrid Kirchherr ranks 2,414 out of 7,253. Before her are Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1522), Erich Topp (1914), Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (1701), Friedrich Christian Diez (1794), Heinrich Bär (1913), and Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1789). After her are Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1797), Heinz Rühmann (1902), Wilhelm Schmidt (1868), Anna Schäffer (1882), John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1550), and Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among photographers born in Germany, Astrid Kirchherr ranks 8. Before her are Heinrich Hoffmann (1885), Gunter Sachs (1932), Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856), August Sander (1876), Guillermo Kahlo (1871), and Andreas Gursky (1955). After her are Erich Salomon (1886), Gisèle Freund (1908), Karl Blossfeldt (1865), Lothar Wolleh (1930), Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897), and Grete Stern (1904).

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