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Hans Erni

1909 - 2015

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Hans Erni (February 21, 1909 – March 21, 2015) was a Swiss graphic designer, painter, illustrator, engraver and sculptor. Born in Lucerne, the third of eight siblings, to a cabin cruiser engineer, he studied art at the Académie Julian in Paris and later in Berlin, and admired artists such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. He is known for having illustrated postage stamps, his lithographs for the Swiss Red Cross, his participation on the Olympic Committee as well as his activism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Erni has received more than 72,229 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hans Erni is the 1,322nd most popular painter (down from 1,176th in 2019), the 358th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 320th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Swiss Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Hans Erni ranks 1,322 out of 2,023. Before him are Lilla Cabot Perry, Auguste Couder, Jan Baptist Weenix, Meijer de Haan, Luca Carlevarijs, and David Vinckboons. After him are Olga Wisinger-Florian, Simon Hantaï, Joseph Cornell, Sattar Bahlulzade, Fan Kuan, and Barbara Hepworth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Hans Erni ranks 184. Before him are Claude Cahen, Max Aub, Valentina Grizodubova, Riccardo Freda, Martin Lings, and Gabrielle Roy. After him are Sylvère Maes, Nikola Vaptsarov, Sattar Bahlulzade, Gordon Bunshaft, August Sabbe, and Fritz Buchloh. Among people deceased in 2015, Hans Erni ranks 184. Before him are Xu Caihou, Judith Malina, Gottfried Diener, Movita Castaneda, Søren Kam, and Evelyn Furtsch. After him are Clark Terry, Michael Graves, Jeralean Talley, Jacques Sernas, Jon Vickers, and Gerald Götting.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Hans Erni ranks 358 out of 1,015. Before him are Ella Maillart (1903), Urs Graf (1485), Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), Albert Heim (1849), Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (1829), and Henri Schwery (1932). After him are Jakob Hermann (1678), Andreas Vollenweider (1953), Antonio Ciseri (1821), Daniel Schmid (1941), Luuk de Jong (1990), and Françoise Giroud (1916).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Hans Erni ranks 26. Before him are Alexandre Calame (1810), Adolf Wölfli (1864), Cuno Amiet (1868), Salomon Gessner (1730), Bertha Wegmann (1847), and Urs Graf (1485). After him are Antonio Ciseri (1821), Aloïse Corbaz (1886), Pier Francesco Mola (1612), Karl Bodmer (1809), Elizabeth Thompson (1846), and Pipilotti Rist (1962).

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