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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 462,637 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Hans Memling is the 102nd most popular painter (down from 97th in 2019), the 218th most popular biography from Germany (down from 194th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Painter.

Hans Memling is most famous for his religious paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Hans Memling ranks 102 out of 1,421Before him are Claude Lorrain, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Duccio, Sofonisba Anguissola, Canaletto, and William-Adolphe Bouguereau. After him are Oskar Kokoschka, Georges de La Tour, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Guido Reni, Yayoi Kusama, and Tamara de Lempicka.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Memling ranks 218 out of 6,142Before him are Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714), Werner von Siemens (1816), Anton Drexler (1884), Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361), Levi Strauss (1829), and Hans Zimmer (1957). After him are Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Walter Ulbricht (1893), Eduard Bernstein (1850), Wilhelm Frick (1877), and Nico (1938).

Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Hans Memling ranks 7Before him are Peter Paul Rubens (1577), Albrecht Dürer (1471), Caspar David Friedrich (1774), Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472), Max Ernst (1891), and Matthias Grünewald (1480). After him are Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), Franz Marc (1880), Otto Dix (1891), Gerhard Richter (1932), and Emil Nolde (1867).