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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 222,010 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Erich Heckel is the 436th most popular painter (down from 363rd in 2019), the 1,227th most popular biography from Germany (down from 981st in 2019) and the 39th most popular German Painter.

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

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Erich Heckel ranks 436 out of 1,421Before him are Piero Manzoni, Marianne von Werefkin, Albert Edelfelt, Ernest Meissonier, Orcagna, and Tsuguharu Foujita. After him are Willem van Aelst, Suzuki Harunobu, Hubert Robert, Raoul Hausmann, Aelbert Cuyp, and Giovanni Boldini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Erich Heckel ranks 56Before him are Marie Laurencin, Adolph Joffe, Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, Ida Rubinstein, Alexandros Papagos, and José Clemente Orozco. After him are Kenji Doihara, Ivan Meštrović, Nikolay Krestinsky, Richard von Mises, Bernhard Rust, and Prince Konrad of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1970, Erich Heckel ranks 55Before him are Percy Spencer, Barnett Newman, Jean Giono, Elsa Triolet, Maud Lewis, and Pedro Cea. After him are Leslie Groves, Marie-Pierre Kœnig, Elyesa Bazna, Nikolay Shvernik, Toshio Iwatani, and Alfred Newman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erich Heckel ranks 1,227 out of 6,142Before him are Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (1911), Douglas Sirk (1897), Fabian von Schlabrendorff (1907), Otto II, Duke of Bavaria (1206), Dieter Rams (1932), and Manuel Neuer (1986). After him are Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1570), Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1530), Claudia Schiffer (1970), Gotthard of Hildesheim (960), Max Hoffmann (1869), and Willi Herold (1925).

Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Erich Heckel ranks 39Before him are Georg Baselitz (1938), Konrad Witz (1400), Max Klinger (1857), Wilhelm Busch (1832), Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876), and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884). After him are Heinz Linge (1913), Anna Maria van Schurman (1607), Anselm Feuerbach (1829), Hans Burgkmair (1473), Wolf Vostell (1932), and Michael Wolgemut (1434).