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J. C. Leyendecker

1874 - 1951

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Joseph Christian Leyendecker (March 23, 1874 – July 25, 1951) was one of the most prominent and financially successful freelance commercial artists in the U.S. He was active between 1895 and 1951 producing drawings and paintings for hundreds of posters, books, advertisements, and magazine covers and stories. He is best known for his 80 covers for Collier's Weekly, 322 covers for The Saturday Evening Post, and advertising illustrations for B. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. C. Leyendecker has received more than 886,329 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). J. C. Leyendecker is the 1,478th most popular painter (up from 1,490th in 2019), the 3,900th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,981st in 2019) and the 132nd most popular German Painter.

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  • 890k

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  • 50.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, J. C. Leyendecker ranks 1,478 out of 2,023. Before him are Nadezhda Udaltsova, Willem Roelofs, José de Madrazo y Agudo, Anna Lea Merritt, Rockwell Kent, and Christian Rohlfs. After him are Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Domenico di Bartolo, Martinus Rørbye, Albert Namatjira, and Christian Albrecht Jensen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, J. C. Leyendecker ranks 140. Before him are Ephraim Moses Lilien, Fejzi Alizoti, Albert Capellani, Henri Deloge, Charles Despiau, and Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov. After him are Iraj Mirza, Ernst Streeruwitz, Alfred Tysoe, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Leonard Eugene Dickson, and Jerzy Żuławski. Among people deceased in 1951, J. C. Leyendecker ranks 109. Before him are Louis Adamic, Katarzyna Kobro, Fréhel, Roland Jacobi, Charles Dillon Perrine, and Tilemachos Karakalos. After him are Sabiha Kasimati, Ernesto Ambrosini, Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth, Haj Ali Razmara, Nikola Mushanov, and Karel Teige.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, J. C. Leyendecker ranks 3,900 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann Usener (1834), Alice Weidel (1979), Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819), Christian Rohlfs (1849), Emil Warburg (1846), and Friedrich Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1657). After him are Gabriele Reinsch (1963), Leopold Zunz (1794), Woldemar Voigt (1850), Eduard August von Regel (1815), Jaki Liebezeit (1938), and Christian Albrecht Jensen (1792).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, J. C. Leyendecker ranks 132. Before him are Jan Boeckhorst (1604), Hermann Zapf (1918), Alexander Kanoldt (1881), Cosmas Damian Asam (1686), Jörg Immendorff (1945), and Christian Rohlfs (1849). After him are Christian Albrecht Jensen (1792), Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1797), Hans Leonhard Schäufelein (1480), Johan Zoffany (1733), David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (1628), and Willi Baumeister (1889).

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