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Carl Spitzweg

1808 - 1885

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Carl Spitzweg (February 5, 1808 – September 23, 1885) was a German romantic painter, especially of genre subjects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Spitzweg has received more than 308,541 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Carl Spitzweg is the 321st most popular painter (down from 315th in 2019), the 866th most popular biography from Germany (down from 855th in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Painter.

Carl Spitzweg is most famous for his paintings of Bavarian life.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Carl Spitzweg ranks 321 out of 2,023. Before him are Grant Wood, Anton Mauve, Cosimo Tura, Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Frans Snyders, and Karl Bryullov. After him are Alexander Roslin, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Oda Krohg, Ary Scheffer, Francesco Primaticcio, and Ludovico Carracci.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Carl Spitzweg ranks 17. Before him are Gérard de Nerval, Thomas Cook, Johann Gustav Droysen, David Strauss, Maria Malibran, and Mohammad Shah Qajar. After him are Solomon Northup, Wilhelm Weitling, Princess Louise of Prussia, George Robert Gray, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, and Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark. Among people deceased in 1885, Carl Spitzweg ranks 6. Before him are Victor Hugo, Ulysses S. Grant, Alfonso XII of Spain, Muhammad Ahmad, and Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia. After him are Ferdinand II of Portugal, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Charles George Gordon, Iwasaki Yatarō, Rosalía de Castro, and L'Inconnue de la Seine.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Spitzweg ranks 866 out of 7,253. Before him are Achim von Arnim (1781), Frederica of Baden (1781), Paul Reuter (1816), Louisa Ulrika of Prussia (1720), Anna Seghers (1900), and Josef Albers (1888). After him are Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1774), Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg (1546), Felix Wankel (1902), Rudolf Schenker (1948), Roland Emmerich (1955), and Robert Huber (1937).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Carl Spitzweg ranks 25. Before him are August Macke (1887), Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805), Max Liebermann (1847), Gabriele Münter (1877), Max Beckmann (1884), and Franz Stuck (1863). After him are Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876), Hendrik Goltzius (1558), Philipp Otto Runge (1777), Joseph Karl Stieler (1781), Stefan Lochner (1410), and Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789).

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