PHOTOGRAPHER

Grete Stern

1904 - 1999

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Grete Stern (9 May 1904 – 24 December 1999) was a German-Argentine photographer. Between April 1930 and March 1933, she studied at the Bauhaus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grete Stern has received more than 85,393 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Grete Stern is the 87th most popular photographer (down from 71st in 2019), the 3,915th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,418th in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Photographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 85k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Grete Stern ranks 87 out of 148. Before her are Lothar Wolleh, William Eggleston, Marc Riboud, Alexandre Michon, Lennart Nilsson, and Albert Renger-Patzsch. After her are Heinrich Zille, Nick Ut, Spencer Tunick, Karl Struss, Joel-Peter Witkin, and Willy Ronis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Grete Stern ranks 196. Before her are Bill Brandt, Bobbie Rosenfeld, Henry Russell, Ladislav Ženíšek, Clarence Nash, and Kenneth Bainbridge. After her are Edgar G. Ulmer, Balys Dvarionas, Valentín González, Lili Damita, Richard Addinsell, and Bozorg Alavi. Among people deceased in 1999, Grete Stern ranks 150. Before her are Harvey Postlethwaite, Richard Kiley, Ruth Roman, Primo Nebiolo, Yevgeny Morgunov, and Nilde Iotti. After her are Carlos Hathcock, Josefina Pla, Minoru Chiaki, Riccardo Cucciolla, Rudolf Kárpáti, and Henry Carlsson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Grete Stern ranks 3,915 out of 7,253. Before her are Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897), Paul Leni (1885), Blasius Merrem (1761), Ian Ashley (1947), August Böckh (1785), and Udo Voigt (1952). After her are Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt (1698), Martin Mutschmann (1879), Julius Döpfner (1913), August Beer (1825), Curt Bois (1901), and Max Lange (1832).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among photographers born in Germany, Grete Stern ranks 14. Before her are Astrid Kirchherr (1938), Erich Salomon (1886), Gisèle Freund (1908), Karl Blossfeldt (1865), Lothar Wolleh (1930), and Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897). After her are Heinrich Zille (1858), Annemarie Heinrich (1912), Ellen von Unwerth (1954), Thomas Struth (1954), Ilse Bing (1899), and Wolfgang Tillmans (1968).

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