1880 - 1938
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. He volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon suffered a breakdown and was discharged. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner has received more than 851,797 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is the 105th most popular painter (down from 92nd in 2019), the 225th most popular biography from Germany (down from 186th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Painter.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is most famous for his paintings and drawings of the German town of Davos, Switzerland.
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Among painters, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ranks 105 out of 1,421. Before him are Sofonisba Anguissola, Canaletto, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Hans Memling, Oskar Kokoschka, and Georges de La Tour. After him are Guido Reni, Yayoi Kusama, Tamara de Lempicka, Ivan Aivazovsky, Simone Martini, and Antonio da Correggio.
1535 - 1625
HPI: 70.89
Rank: 99
1697 - 1768
HPI: 70.85
Rank: 100
1825 - 1905
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 101
1435 - 1494
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 102
1886 - 1980
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 103
1593 - 1652
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 104
1880 - 1938
HPI: 70.54
Rank: 105
1575 - 1642
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 106
1929 - Present
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 107
1898 - 1980
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 108
1817 - 1900
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 109
1284 - 1344
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 110
1489 - 1534
HPI: 70.14
Rank: 111
Among people born in 1880, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ranks 8. Before him are Alfred Wegener, Douglas MacArthur, Guillaume Apollinaire, Fedor von Bock, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, and Oswald Spengler. After him are Robert Musil, George Marshall, Ludwig Beck, Franz Marc, André Derain, and Paul Hausser. Among people deceased in 1938, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ranks 7. Before him are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Edmund Husserl, Kanō Jigorō, Georges Méliès, Karel Čapek, and Konstantin Stanislavski. After him are Béla Kun, Nikolai Bukharin, Karl Kautsky, Faustina Kowalska, Charles Édouard Guillaume, and Robert Johnson.
1880 - 1930
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 2
1880 - 1964
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 3
1880 - 1918
HPI: 74.31
Rank: 4
1880 - 1945
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 5
1880 - 1962
HPI: 72.28
Rank: 6
1880 - 1936
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 7
1880 - 1938
HPI: 70.54
Rank: 8
1880 - 1942
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 9
1880 - 1959
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 10
1880 - 1944
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 11
1880 - 1916
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 12
1880 - 1954
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 13
1880 - 1972
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 14
1881 - 1938
HPI: 88.95
Rank: 1
1859 - 1938
HPI: 77.74
Rank: 2
1860 - 1938
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 3
1861 - 1938
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 4
1890 - 1938
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 5
1863 - 1938
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 6
1880 - 1938
HPI: 70.54
Rank: 7
1886 - 1938
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 8
1888 - 1938
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 9
1854 - 1938
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 10
1905 - 1938
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 11
1861 - 1938
HPI: 68.46
Rank: 12
1911 - 1938
HPI: 68.45
Rank: 13
Among people born in Germany, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ranks 225 out of 6,142. Before him are Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Walter Ulbricht (1893), Eduard Bernstein (1850), Wilhelm Frick (1877), and Nico (1938). After him are Thomas Müntzer (1489), Herbert Marcuse (1898), Albert Kesselring (1885), John of Austria (1547), Ludwig Erhard (1897), and Jupp Heynckes (1945).
1876 - 1956
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 219
1729 - 1781
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 220
1893 - 1973
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 221
1850 - 1932
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 222
1877 - 1946
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 223
1938 - 1988
HPI: 70.58
Rank: 224
1880 - 1938
HPI: 70.54
Rank: 225
1489 - 1525
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 226
1898 - 1979
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 227
1885 - 1960
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 228
1547 - 1578
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 229
1897 - 1977
HPI: 70.45
Rank: 230
1945 - Present
HPI: 70.42
Rank: 231
Among painters born in Germany, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ranks 8. Before him are Albrecht Dürer (1471), Caspar David Friedrich (1774), Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472), Max Ernst (1891), Matthias Grünewald (1480), and Hans Memling (1435). After him are Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), Franz Marc (1880), Otto Dix (1891), Gerhard Richter (1932), Emil Nolde (1867), and Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515).
1471 - 1528
HPI: 85.05
Rank: 2
1774 - 1840
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 3
1472 - 1553
HPI: 73.57
Rank: 4
1891 - 1976
HPI: 71.86
Rank: 5
1480 - 1528
HPI: 71.37
Rank: 6
1435 - 1494
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 7
1880 - 1938
HPI: 70.54
Rank: 8
1480 - 1538
HPI: 69.06
Rank: 9
1880 - 1916
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 10
1891 - 1969
HPI: 67.77
Rank: 11
1932 - Present
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 12
1867 - 1956
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 13
1515 - 1586
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 14