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Georg Pencz

1500 - 1550

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Georg Pencz (c. 1500 – 11 October 1550) was a German engraver, painter and printmaker. Pencz was probably born in Westheim near Bad Windsheim/Franconia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Pencz has received more than 44,013 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Georg Pencz is the 1,219th most popular painter (down from 1,152nd in 2019), the 3,320th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,150th in 2019) and the 111th most popular German Painter.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Georg Pencz ranks 1,219 out of 2,023. Before him are Jan van Kessel the Elder, Tawaraya Sōtatsu, Albrecht Adam, Salomon Gessner, Alexey Venetsianov, and Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ. After him are Fritz von Uhde, Franciszek Smuglewicz, Tina Blau, Bartolo di Fredi, Hans Hofmann, and Paul Ranson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1500, Georg Pencz ranks 41. Before him are Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Nuno Tristão, Jacob Hutter, Ambrosius Benson, Luis de Narváez, and Rum Mehmed Pasha. After him are Robert de Nola, Pedro Reinel, Ligier Richier, Corneille de Lyon, Caupolicán, and Theodore Bibliander. Among people deceased in 1550, Georg Pencz ranks 19. Before him are Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, Sebald Beham, Isabel Moctezuma, Ambrosius Benson, Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine, and Ashikaga Yoshiharu. After him is John Major.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Pencz ranks 3,320 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1802), Ricardo Wolf (1887), Richard Huelsenbeck (1892), Princess Catherine of Württemberg (1821), Arnold Fanck (1889), and Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau (1785). After him are Abraham Geiger (1810), Heinz Flohe (1948), Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1528), Annalena Baerbock (1980), Friedrich Christiansen (1879), and Fritz von Uhde (1848).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Georg Pencz ranks 111. Before him are Fritz Bleyl (1880), Franz Pforr (1788), Johannes Lingelbach (1622), Gerhard von Kügelgen (1772), Jörg Breu the Elder (1475), and Albrecht Adam (1786). After him are Fritz von Uhde (1848), Hans Hofmann (1880), Paul Renner (1878), Albertus Pictor (1440), Emanuel Leutze (1816), and Carl Blechen (1798).

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