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Hans Memling

1435 - 1494

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Hans Memling (also spelled Memlinc; c. 1430 – 11 August 1494) was a German-Flemish painter who worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. Born in the Middle Rhine region, he probably spent his childhood in Mainz. During his apprenticeship as a painter he moved to the Netherlands and spent time in the Brussels workshop of Rogier van der Weyden. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Memling has received more than 506,223 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Hans Memling is the 126th most popular painter (down from 102nd in 2019), the 292nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 218th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Painter.

Hans Memling is most famous for his religious paintings.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Hans Memling ranks 126 out of 2,023. Before him are Apelles, Arnold Böcklin, Andrea del Sarto, Gustave Moreau, Parmigianino, and Gerrit Dou. After him are John Constable, Carl Larsson, Franz Marc, Jean Fouquet, Jan Steen, and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1435, Hans Memling ranks 2. Before him is Andrea del Verrocchio. After him are Andrea della Robbia, Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy, Francis II, Duke of Brittany, Bernt Notke, Jacob Sprenger, Michael Pacher, Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Johannes Tinctoris, Pietro Lombardo, and Sittişah Hatun. Among people deceased in 1494, Hans Memling ranks 3. Before him are Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Domenico Ghirlandaio. After him are Ferdinand I of Naples, Poliziano, Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Melozzo da Forlì, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Muhammad XIII of Granada, Yuriy Drohobych, Giosafat Barbaro, and Giovanni Santi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Memling ranks 292 out of 7,253. Before him are Maria Sibylla Merian (1647), Irma Grese (1923), Carl Zeiss (1816), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), Ernst Ruska (1906), and Wilhelm Grimm (1786). After him are Sophie Scholl (1921), Martin Behaim (1459), Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1175), Karl May (1842), Helmut Schmidt (1918), and Franz Marc (1880).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Hans Memling ranks 8. Before him are Peter Paul Rubens (1577), Caspar David Friedrich (1774), Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472), Max Ernst (1891), Matthias Grünewald (1480), and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880). After him are Franz Marc (1880), Hans von Aachen (1552), Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), Emil Nolde (1867), Otto Dix (1891), and Anselm Kiefer (1945).

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