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Carl Blechen

1798 - 1840

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Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen (29 July 1798 – 23 July 1840) was a German landscape painter and a professor at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Blechen has received more than 66,680 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Carl Blechen is the 1,307th most popular painter (down from 1,291st in 2019), the 3,512th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,458th in 2019) and the 117th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Carl Blechen ranks 1,307 out of 2,023Before him are Philip Guston, Marlene Dumas, On Kawara, Giovanni Santi, Godfried Schalcken, and Echion. After him are Urs Graf, Janis Rozentāls, Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval, Childe Hassam, Élisabeth Sophie Chéron, and Zhang Xuan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Carl Blechen ranks 29Before him are Jules Armand Dufaure, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Charles Wilkes, Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, Sophronius IV of Alexandria, and Willibald Alexis. After him are Macedonio Melloni, Alexei Lvov, Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, Anton Delvig, and Friedrich Robert Faehlmann. Among people deceased in 1840, Carl Blechen ranks 34Before him are John Cockerill, Karl Otfried Müller, Johann Michael Vogl, Frances Burney, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, and Dingane kaSenzangakhona. After him are Sidney Smith, Franz Meyen, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Anthony Carlisle, Karl Leberecht Immermann, and Joseph Johann von Littrow.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Blechen ranks 3,512 out of 7,253Before him are Erich Salomon (1886), Paul Dessau (1894), Franz John (1872), Conrad of Urach (1170), Herbert Erhardt (1930), and Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1581). After him are Curt Haase (1881), Philipp Spitta (1841), Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), Gerhard von Schwerin (1899), Max von Hausen (1846), and Archibald Reiss (1875).

Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Carl Blechen ranks 117Before him are Georg Pencz (1500), Fritz von Uhde (1848), Hans Hofmann (1880), Paul Renner (1878), Albertus Pictor (1440), and Emanuel Leutze (1816). After him are Peter von Hess (1792), Christian Schad (1894), Edgar Ende (1901), A. R. Penck (1939), Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790), and Virgil Solis (1514).