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Hans Poelzig

1869 - 1936

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Hans Poelzig (30 April 1869 – 14 June 1936) was a German architect, painter and set designer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Poelzig has received more than 142,808 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Hans Poelzig is the 192nd most popular architect (up from 193rd in 2019), the 2,097th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,068th in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Hans Poelzig ranks 192 out of 518Before him are Michele Sanmicheli, James Hoban, Roberto Burle Marx, Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, Baysunghur, and Carlo Fontana. After him are Lev Rudnev, Jacobus Oud, Shigeru Ban, Luigi Vanvitelli, Adrian Smith, and Mart Stam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Hans Poelzig ranks 63Before him are Julius Dorpmüller, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia, Zinaida Gippius, Yevno Azef, Washington Luís, and Alfred Flatow. After him are Algernon Blackwood, Louise d'Orléans, Caterina Albert, Philip de László, Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, and Otto Nordenskjöld. Among people deceased in 1936, Hans Poelzig ranks 71Before him are Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Henri de Régnier, Edward Bach, Charles Curtis, Richard Hauptmann, and Meir Dizengoff. After him are Gustave Kahn, Arvid Lindman, Sergey Kamenev, Édouard Herzen, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, and Nahum Sokolow.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Poelzig ranks 2,097 out of 7,253Before him are Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg (1619), Maria Riva (1924), Erich Juskowiak (1926), Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (1865), Wolfgang of Regensburg (924), and Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894). After him are Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau (1837), Friedrich Paschen (1865), İlkay Gündoğan (1990), Bodo Illgner (1967), Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma (1891), and Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (1891).

Among ARCHITECTS In Germany

Among architects born in Germany, Hans Poelzig ranks 20Before him are Hans Scharoun (1893), Ludwig Borchardt (1863), Carl Ludvig Engel (1778), Ernst Neufert (1900), Günter Behnisch (1922), and Paul Troost (1878). After him are Lilly Reich (1885), Friedrich von Gärtner (1791), Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662), Friedrich von Schmidt (1825), Adolf Meyer (1881), and Hermann Muthesius (1861).