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Fritz Bleyl

1880 - 1966

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Hilmar Friedrich Wilhelm Bleyl, known as Fritz Bleyl (8 October 1880 – 19 August 1966), was a German artist of the Expressionist school, and one of the four founders of artist group Die Brücke ("The Bridge"). He designed graphics for the group including, for their first show, a poster, which was banned by the police. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritz Bleyl has received more than 70,957 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Fritz Bleyl is the 1,134th most popular painter (up from 1,136th in 2019), the 3,041st most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,106th in 2019) and the 105th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Fritz Bleyl ranks 1,134 out of 2,023. Before him are Gim Hongdo, Antoine Coypel, María Blanchard, Cornelis Ketel, Pablo Gargallo, and Simon Marmion. After him are Franz Pforr, Isaac van Ostade, Caesar van Everdingen, Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, Abram Arkhipov, and Lorenzo Lippi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Fritz Bleyl ranks 103. Before him are Georg von Trapp, Arnold Gesell, Louis Charles Breguet, Fernand Feyaerts, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, and Marie Stopes. After him are Tudor Arghezi, Frigyes Riesz, Lytton Strachey, Alfred J. Lotka, Mirza Kuchik Khan, and B. C. Forbes. Among people deceased in 1966, Fritz Bleyl ranks 101. Before him are Heimito von Doderer, John of Shanghai and San Francisco, Otto von Knobelsdorff, Alfred Neuland, Stanisław Mikołajczyk, and Guillermo Gorostiza. After him are Sutan Sjahrir, J. F. C. Fuller, Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Felix von Luckner, Gaspar Cassadó, and Lenny Bruce.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz Bleyl ranks 3,041 out of 7,253. Before him are Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772), Marcel Ophüls (1927), Carl Peters (1856), Peter Stein (1937), Karlheinz Förster (1958), and Horst Szymaniak (1934). After him are Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (1877), Otto Ciliax (1891), Rudolf III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1373), Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1646), Elmar Wepper (1944), and Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1787).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Fritz Bleyl ranks 105. Before him are Adolf Ziegler (1892), Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow (1789), Hans Rottenhammer (1564), Caspar Netscher (1639), Johann Baptist Zimmermann (1680), and Carlos Schwabe (1866). After him are Franz Pforr (1788), Johannes Lingelbach (1622), Gerhard von Kügelgen (1772), Jörg Breu the Elder (1475), Albrecht Adam (1786), and Georg Pencz (1500).

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