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Carl Joseph Begas

1794 - 1854

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Carl Joseph Begas, or Karl Begas, (30 September 1794, Heinsberg – 24 November 1854, Berlin) was a German painter who played an important role in the transition from Romanticism to Realism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Joseph Begas has received more than 41,177 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Carl Joseph Begas is the 1,411th most popular painter (down from 1,193rd in 2019), the 3,763rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,257th in 2019) and the 116th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Carl Joseph Begas ranks 1,411 out of 1,421Before him are Aleksandr Gerasimov, Alexey Bogolyubov, Kanō Tan'yū, Lorenz Frølich, Robert Henri, and Heinrich Campendonk. After him are Oldřich Lajsek, Agnes Block, Augustin Hirschvogel, Rockwell Kent, Nikiforos Lytras, and Władysław Ślewiński.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Carl Joseph Begas ranks 45Before him are Leopold Zunz, Achille Valenciennes, Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, and John Biscoe. After him are Achille Richard, Umihana Čuvidina, Heinrich Boie, Gabriel Antonio Pereira, Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, and William Cullen Bryant. Among people deceased in 1854, Carl Joseph Begas ranks 44Before him are Józef Chłopicki, Anton Pann, Arthur Aikin, Frederick Catherwood, Karl Ludwig von Haller, and José Joaquín Prieto. After him are Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau, Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Philip Barker-Webb, José María Vargas, Émile Souvestre, and Edward Forbes.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Joseph Begas ranks 3,763 out of 6,142Before him are Detlev von Liliencron (1844), Helmut Recknagel (1937), Franz Nissl (1860), Edda Moser (1938), Heinrich Campendonk (1889), and Friedrich Dickel (1913). After him are Theo Lingen (1903), Heinrich Walpot von Bassenheim (1198), Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau (1602), Hans Heyer (1943), Irmgard Möller (1947), and Loris Karius (1993).

Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Carl Joseph Begas ranks 116Before him are Cosmas Damian Asam (1686), Willi Baumeister (1889), Georg Muche (1895), Jörg Immendorff (1945), Christian Rohlfs (1849), and Heinrich Campendonk (1889). After him are Agnes Block (1629), Augustin Hirschvogel (1503), Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807), Karl Ferdinand Sohn (1805), Johan Zoffany (1733), and Karl Schorn (1803).