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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 825,804 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. J. C. Leyendecker is the 1,492nd most popular painter, the 3,992nd most popular biography from Germany and the 123rd most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, J. C. Leyendecker ranks 1,492 out of 1,421Before him are Morris Louis, Rihard Jakopič, Jenny Holzer, Theodore Robinson, Thomas Moran, and Arpenik Nalbandyan. After him are Gaspar Becerra, Hashimoto Gahō, Paulus Moreelse, Eugene Lanceray, Alberto Vargas, and Gwen John.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, J. C. Leyendecker ranks 150Before him are Steve Bloomer, Dmitry Gulia, Abbas Sahhat, Frank Elmore Ross, Henry Travers, and Honus Wagner. After him are Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Theodore Lyman IV, Leonard Eugene Dickson, Ernst Streeruwitz, Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, and Johannes Baumann. Among people deceased in 1951, J. C. Leyendecker ranks 117Before him are Fanny Brice, Leopold Andrian, Fritz Julius Kuhn, Anna Tumarkin, Alfrēds Kalniņš, and Dorothea Bate. After him are Ivor Novello, Miyamoto Yuriko, Ignaty Krachkovsky, Nikola Mushanov, Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias, and Richard Schorr.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, J. C. Leyendecker ranks 3,992 out of 6,142Before him are Ludwig Goldbrunner (1908), Gustav Hartlaub (1814), Klaus Groth (1819), Max Lorenz (1901), Rudi Assauer (1944), and Paul Pietsch (1911). After him are Emil Welti (1825), Ignaz von Rudhart (1790), Karl Knies (1821), Adolf Urban (1914), Bernd Storck (1963), and Carl Sternheim (1878).

Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, J. C. Leyendecker ranks 123Before him are Agnes Block (1629), Augustin Hirschvogel (1503), Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807), Karl Ferdinand Sohn (1805), Johan Zoffany (1733), and Karl Schorn (1803). After him are Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857), Christian Albrecht Jensen (1792), Georg Holtzendorff (null), and Kiki Smith (1954).