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Hans Holbein the Younger

German artist and printmaker

1497 - 1545

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His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Holbein the Younger is the 8th most popular artist (down from 7th in 2024), the 261st most popular biography from Germany (down from 172nd in 2019) and the most popular German Artist.

Hans Holbein the Younger is most famous for his portraits of Henry VIII and his family.

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Hans Holbein the Younger ranks #261 among 8,184 people in Pantheon born in Germany, inside the top 4% of that group.

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Hans Holbein the Younger's biography appears in 65 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 94% of all Artists.

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Hans Holbein the Younger is one of the 8 earliest-born Artists in all of Pantheon.

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Among Artists

Among artists, Hans Holbein the Younger ranks 8 out of 139. Before him are Andy Warhol, Marina Abramović, Marcel Duchamp, M. C. Escher, Yoko Ono, and Jusepe de Ribera. After him are Jean Arp, Victor Vasarely, Hiroshige, Joseph Beuys, Käthe Kollwitz, and Luca Signorelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1497, Hans Holbein the Younger ranks 2. Before him is Philip Melanchthon. After him are Pedro de Valdivia, Beyhan Sultan, Emperor Go-Nara, Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Mōri Motonari, Francesco Canova da Milano, Jean Fernel, and Stephen Gardiner. Among people deceased in 1545, Hans Holbein the Younger ranks 1. After him are Maria Manuela, Princess of Portugal, Hans Baldung, Injong of Joseon, Albert of Brandenburg, Elizabeth of Austria, Peter Faber, Sher Shah Suri, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, Charles II de Valois, Duke of Orléans, and Nikola Jurišić.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Holbein the Younger ranks 261 out of 8,184. Before him are Jacob Grimm (1785), Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1282), Werner von Siemens (1816), August Ferdinand Möbius (1790), Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800), and Anne of Cleves (1515). After him are Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838), Ludwig Erhard (1897), Konstantin von Neurath (1873), Albert Kesselring (1885), Friedrich Bessel (1784), and Walther von Brauchitsch (1881).

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Among Artists In Germany

Among artists born in Germany, Hans Holbein the Younger ranks 1. After him are Joseph Beuys (1921), Kurt Schwitters (1887), Josef Albers (1888), Bernt Notke (1435), Méret Oppenheim (1913), John Heartfield (1891), Ulay (1943), Marianne Brandt (1893), Gunta Stölzl (1897), Helene Kröller-Müller (1869), and Daniel Hopfer (1470).

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