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Erich Heckel

1883 - 1970

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Erich Heckel (31 July 1883 – 27 January 1970) was a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the group Die Brücke ("The Bridge") which existed 1905–1913. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erich Heckel has received more than 219,631 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Erich Heckel is the 435th most popular painter, the 1,190th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,227th in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Painter.

Erich Heckel was a German artist, who is most famous for his paintings of nudes.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

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  • 60.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Erich Heckels by language

Over the past year Erich Heckel has had the most page views in the with 24,126 views, followed by German (21,639), and Spanish (5,061). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (55.65%), Finnish (53.57%), and Western Punjabi (50.95%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Erich Heckel ranks 435 out of 2,023. Before him are Zinaida Serebriakova, Maud Lewis, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Suzuki Harunobu, Piero Manzoni, and Catharina van Hemessen. After him are Jean-Baptiste Regnault, José Clemente Orozco, Salaì, Cennino Cennini, Françoise Gilot, and Christian Krohg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Erich Heckel ranks 53. Before him are Gottfried Feder, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Max Linder, Adolph Joffe, Alexandros Papagos, and Ida Rubinstein. After him are José Clemente Orozco, Ivan Ilyin, Richard von Mises, Nikolay Krestinsky, Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, and Henri Delaunay. Among people deceased in 1970, Erich Heckel ranks 53. Before him are Sonny Liston, Jean Giono, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, E. M. Forster, Lev Kuleshov, and Maud Lewis. After him are Elsa Triolet, Percy Spencer, Fritz Bayerlein, Elyesa Bazna, Barnett Newman, and Giuseppe Ungaretti.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erich Heckel ranks 1,190 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833), Marianne Bachmeier (1950), Vasily Radlov (1837), Georg Böhm (1661), Oskar Lafontaine (1943), and Amalia of Oldenburg (1818). After him are Alfred von Waldersee (1832), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (1227), Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1907), Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1781), Hermann Graf (1912), and Franz Seldte (1882).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Erich Heckel ranks 37. Before him are Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Oskar Schlemmer (1888), Max Klinger (1857), Lucian Freud (1922), Adam Elsheimer (1578), and Anna Maria van Schurman (1607). After him are Konrad Witz (1400), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884), Anselm Feuerbach (1829), Hans Holbein the Elder (1465), Godfrey Kneller (1646), and Hannah Höch (1889).

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