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Hans Holbein the Elder

1465 - 1524

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Hans Holbein the Elder (UK: HOL-byne, US: HOHL-byne, HAWL-; German: Hans Holbein der Ältere; c. 1460 – 1524) was a German painter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Holbein the Elder has received more than 258,752 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Hans Holbein the Elder is the 467th most popular painter (up from 549th in 2019), the 1,267th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,513th in 2019) and the 41st most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Hans Holbein the Elder ranks 467 out of 2,023Before him are Hendrick ter Brugghen, Matthäus Merian, James Tissot, Pierre Puget, Giovanni Boldini, and Jacopo de' Barbari. After him are Godfrey Kneller, Melozzo da Forlì, Abraham Brueghel, Louise Abbéma, Mariotto Albertinelli, and Hannah Höch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1465, Hans Holbein the Elder ranks 6Before him are Vittore Carpaccio, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Scipione del Ferro, Kunigunde of Austria, and Mehmed I Giray. After him are Philibert I, Duke of Savoy, Gil Vicente, Agostino Chigi, Paulo da Gama, Bramantino, and Konrad Peutinger. Among people deceased in 1524, Hans Holbein the Elder ranks 12Before him are Joachim Patinir, Marko Marulić, Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, Andrea Solari, Salaì, and Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard. After him are Tang Yin, Johann von Staupitz, Cristóbal de Olid, Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria, Ğazı I Giray, and Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Holbein the Elder ranks 1,267 out of 7,253Before him are Henri Victor Regnault (1810), Matthias Sammer (1967), Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse (1896), Marita Koch (1957), Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt (1751), and Gerda Christian (1913). After him are Franz Gürtner (1881), Godfrey Kneller (1646), Georg Kerschensteiner (1854), Rudi Dutschke (1940), Maria Sophia of Neuburg (1666), and Gerberga of Saxony (913).

Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Hans Holbein the Elder ranks 41Before him are Adam Elsheimer (1578), Anna Maria van Schurman (1607), Erich Heckel (1883), Konrad Witz (1400), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884), and Anselm Feuerbach (1829). After him are Godfrey Kneller (1646), Hannah Höch (1889), Wilhelm Busch (1832), Heinz Linge (1913), Michael Wolgemut (1434), and Georg Baselitz (1938).