1893 - 1959
George Grosz (German: [ɡʁoːs]; born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. He immigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Grosz has received more than 436,722 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). George Grosz is the 191st most popular painter (down from 186th in 2019), the 472nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 452nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular German Painter.
George Grosz is most famous for his satirical caricatures of the German society during the Weimar Republic.
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Among painters, George Grosz ranks 191 out of 1,428. Before him are Dieric Bouts, Pieter de Hooch, Zeuxis, Édouard-Henri Avril, John William Waterhouse, and Lawrence Alma-Tadema. After him are Antoine-Jean Gros, Chaim Soutine, Petrus Christus, Jean Dubuffet, Pisanello, and Jacopo Bellini.
1415 - 1475
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 185
1629 - 1684
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 186
500 BC - 400 BC
HPI: 74.08
Rank: 187
1849 - 1928
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 188
1849 - 1917
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 189
1836 - 1912
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 190
1893 - 1959
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 191
1771 - 1835
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 192
1893 - 1943
HPI: 73.84
Rank: 193
1410 - 1475
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 194
1901 - 1985
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 195
1395 - 1455
HPI: 73.80
Rank: 196
1396 - 1470
HPI: 73.78
Rank: 197
Among people born in 1893, George Grosz ranks 18. Before him are Draža Mihailović, Karl Mannheim, Soong Ching-ling, Harold Lloyd, Roland Freisler, and Lazar Kaganovich. After him are Chaim Soutine, Harold Urey, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Andrés Segovia, Hattie McDaniel, and Omar Bradley. Among people deceased in 1959, George Grosz ranks 14. Before him are Gérard Philipe, Errol Flynn, Boris Vian, Camilo Cienfuegos, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Billie Holiday. After him are Shirō Ishii, Adolf Windaus, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Bohuslav Martinů, and Alfred Schütz.
1893 - 1946
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 12
1893 - 1947
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 13
1893 - 1981
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 14
1893 - 1971
HPI: 74.53
Rank: 15
1893 - 1945
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 16
1893 - 1991
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 17
1893 - 1959
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 18
1893 - 1943
HPI: 73.84
Rank: 19
1893 - 1981
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 20
1893 - 1986
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 21
1893 - 1987
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 22
1893 - 1952
HPI: 73.02
Rank: 23
1893 - 1981
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 24
1922 - 1959
HPI: 75.90
Rank: 8
1909 - 1959
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 9
1920 - 1959
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 10
1932 - 1959
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 11
1887 - 1959
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 12
1915 - 1959
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 13
1893 - 1959
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 14
1892 - 1959
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 15
1876 - 1959
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 16
1936 - 1959
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 17
1941 - 1959
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 18
1890 - 1959
HPI: 72.47
Rank: 19
1899 - 1959
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 20
Among people born in Germany, George Grosz ranks 472 out of 5,289. Before him are Harald zur Hausen (1936), Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645), Robert Ritter von Greim (1892), Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848), Gerda Taro (1910), and Adolf Butenandt (1903). After him are Hans Jonas (1903), Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor (1075), Patrick Süskind (1949), Dietrich von Choltitz (1894), Albert the Bear (1100), and Samuel von Pufendorf (1632).
1936 - Present
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 466
1645 - 1695
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 467
1892 - 1945
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 468
1848 - 1916
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 469
1910 - 1937
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 470
1903 - 1995
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 471
1893 - 1959
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 472
1903 - 1993
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 473
1075 - 1137
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 474
1949 - Present
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 475
1894 - 1966
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 476
1100 - 1170
HPI: 73.80
Rank: 477
1632 - 1694
HPI: 73.78
Rank: 478
Among painters born in Germany, George Grosz ranks 15. Before him are Franz Marc (1880), Gerhard Richter (1932), Emil Nolde (1867), Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), Otto Dix (1891), and Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515). After him are Hans Baldung (1484), August Macke (1887), Max Liebermann (1847), Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805), Max Beckmann (1884), and Lucian Freud (1922).
1880 - 1916
HPI: 77.45
Rank: 9
1932 - Present
HPI: 76.73
Rank: 10
1867 - 1956
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 11
1480 - 1538
HPI: 76.45
Rank: 12
1891 - 1969
HPI: 76.41
Rank: 13
1515 - 1586
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 14
1893 - 1959
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 15
1484 - 1545
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 16
1887 - 1914
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 17
1847 - 1935
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 18
1805 - 1873
HPI: 71.91
Rank: 19
1884 - 1950
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 20
1922 - 2011
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 21