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Franz Xaver Winterhalter

1805 - 1873

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Xaver Winterhalter has received more than 498,596 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Franz Xaver Winterhalter is the 263rd most popular painter (down from 255th in 2019), the 674th most popular biography from Germany (down from 664th in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Painter.

Franz Xaver Winterhalter was a German painter who is most famous for his portraits of members of European royal families.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Franz Xaver Winterhalter ranks 263 out of 2,023. Before him are Gentile da Fabriano, Kees van Dongen, August Macke, Henri Fantin-Latour, Antoni Tàpies, and Francesco Hayez. After him are Giorgio Morandi, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Rosalba Carriera, Guercino, Jan van Goyen, and Alessandro Allori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Franz Xaver Winterhalter ranks 11. Before him are Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Ferdinand de Lesseps, William Rowan Hamilton, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Louis Auguste Blanqui. After him are Maria Anna of Bavaria, Marie d'Agoult, Khachatur Abovian, Robert FitzRoy, Adalbert Stifter, and Ewelina Hańska. Among people deceased in 1873, Franz Xaver Winterhalter ranks 10. Before him are Justus von Liebig, Alessandro Manzoni, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, John of Saxony, and Alexandru Ioan Cuza. After him are Vasil Levski, Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Louis Agassiz, Fyodor Tyutchev, Émile Gaboriau, and Johns Hopkins.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Xaver Winterhalter ranks 674 out of 7,253. Before him are Berti Vogts (1946), Georg Wittig (1897), August Macke (1887), Pavlo Skoropadskyi (1873), Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (1636), and Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1673). After him are Ernst Mayr (1904), Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1822), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (1876), Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783), Jürgen Stroop (1895), and Gertrude the Great (1256).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Franz Xaver Winterhalter ranks 20. Before him are Anselm Kiefer (1945), Hans Baldung (1484), Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515), Gerhard Richter (1932), George Grosz (1893), and August Macke (1887). After him are Max Liebermann (1847), Gabriele Münter (1877), Max Beckmann (1884), Franz Stuck (1863), Carl Spitzweg (1808), and Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876).

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