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Hermann Zapf

1918 - 2015

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Hermann Zapf (German: [tsapf]; 8 November 1918 – 4 June 2015) was a German type designer and calligrapher who lived in Darmstadt, Germany. He was married to the calligrapher and typeface designer Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse. Typefaces he designed include Palatino, Optima, and Zapfino. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Zapf has received more than 275,601 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Zapf is the 1,067th most popular painter (up from 1,069th in 2019), the 2,920th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,897th in 2019) and the 94th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Hermann Zapf ranks 1,067 out of 1,421Before him are Louis Marcoussis, Taddeo di Bartolo, Simon Hollósy, Philip de Koninck, Bartolomeo Carducci, and Jankel Adler. After him are Pieter de Molijn, Gerrit Berckheyde, Helen Frankenthaler, Benjamin West, Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz, and Otto Marseus van Schrieck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Hermann Zapf ranks 140Before him are Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, Anatoly Tarasov, Abdul Haris Nasution, Elmore James, Ján Kadár, and Cornell Capa. After him are Georgios Rallis, Sandro Puppo, Mehdi Huseynzade, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Patachou, and Giovanni Canestri. Among people deceased in 2015, Hermann Zapf ranks 153Before him are Renzo Zorzi, Vicente Aranda, Elena Obraztsova, Dean Jones, Nils Christie, and Klaus Roth. After him are Władysław Bartoszewski, Valentin Rasputin, Søren Kam, Ignacio Zoco, Mile Mrkšić, and Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Zapf ranks 2,920 out of 6,142Before him are Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809), Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1910), Isdal Woman (1940), Engelbert II of Berg (1185), and Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819). After him are Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern (1868), Max Dehn (1878), Carl Peters (1856), Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1687), Alfred Abel (1879), and Werner Goldberg (1919).

Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Hermann Zapf ranks 94Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow (1789), Ludwig Richter (1803), Hans von Kulmbach (1476), Peter Lely (1618), Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805), and Hans von Marées (1837). After him are Fritz von Uhde (1848), Max Slevogt (1868), Fritz Bleyl (1880), Paul Renner (1878), Hans Hofmann (1880), and Georg Pencz (1500).