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Frank Auerbach

1931 - 2024

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Frank Helmut Auerbach (29 April 1931 – 11 November 2024) was a German-born British painter. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, he became a naturalised British subject in 1947. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Auerbach has received more than 530,376 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Auerbach is the 1,892nd most popular painter, the 5,167th most popular biography from Germany and the 159th most popular German Painter.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Frank Auerbach ranks 1,892 out of 2,023Before him are L. S. Lowry, Barbara Bodichon, Georg Holtzendorff, Augustus John, William Stanley Haseltine, and Harry Clarke. After him are Hans Eworth, Frank Weston Benson, Octav Băncilă, Jacek Yerka, Mikuláš Galanda, and R. B. Kitaj.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Frank Auerbach ranks 483Before him are Anthony Newley, Jackie McLean, Giovanni Battista Rabino, Ann Rule, Věra Suková, and Jimmy Stewart. After him are Leyla Erbil, Gert Hofmann, Valeriu Bularca, Ray Bryant, Hanoi Hannah, and Nadja Regin. Among people deceased in 2024, Frank Auerbach ranks 336Before him are Alan Rees, Robert H. Dennard, Peter Armbruster, Richard Lewis, Francisco Rodríguez, and John Prescott. After him are Guram Kostava, Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem, E. Allen Emerson, Stephen Laybutt, Jon Landau, and Timothy West.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frank Auerbach ranks 5,167 out of 7,253Before him are Josef Neckermann (1912), Dieter Hecking (1964), Allison Mack (1982), Hans Rademacher (1892), Michael Gross (1964), and Cha Du-ri (1980). After him are Bernard Knubel (1872), Chris Gueffroy (1968), Albert Zürner (1890), Fritz Riess (1922), Norbert Walter-Borjans (1952), and Hans-Emil Schuster (1934).

Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Frank Auerbach ranks 159Before him are Otto Modersohn (1865), Ditlev Blunck (1798), Markus Lüpertz (1941), Kiki Smith (1954), Karl Schorn (1803), and Georg Holtzendorff (null). After him are Neo Rauch (1960).