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Johann Friedrich Overbeck

1789 - 1869

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Johann Friedrich Overbeck (3 July 1789 – 12 November 1869) was a German painter and a founder of the Nazarene art movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Friedrich Overbeck has received more than 92,932 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Johann Friedrich Overbeck is the 362nd most popular painter (up from 375th in 2019), the 1,003rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,053rd in 2019) and the 31st most popular German Painter.

Johann Friedrich Overbeck is most famous for his involvement in the Nazarene movement.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Johann Friedrich Overbeck ranks 362 out of 2,023. Before him are Pierre Mignard, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Lorenzo Monaco, Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Francesco Albani, and Stefan Lochner. After him are Elisabetta Sirani, Abraham Bloemaert, Balthus, Jan Gossaert, Maarten van Heemskerck, and Anna Ancher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Johann Friedrich Overbeck ranks 9. Before him are Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, James Fenimore Cooper, Friedrich List, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, María Isabella of Spain, and Horace Vernet. After him are Abbas Mirza, Heinrich Schwabe, Princess Charlotte of Denmark, Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, Maria Szymanowska, and Carl Gustav Carus. Among people deceased in 1869, Johann Friedrich Overbeck ranks 8. Before him are Hector Berlioz, Alphonse de Lamartine, Ghalib, Allan Kardec, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, and Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve. After him are Hijikata Toshizō, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Thomas Graham, Antoine-Henri Jomini, Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, and Giovanni Battista Bugatti.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Overbeck ranks 1,003 out of 7,253. Before him are Gottlob Berger (1896), Princess Louise of Prussia (1838), Hans Oster (1887), Charles, Grand Duke of Baden (1786), Emmy Göring (1893), and August Grisebach (1814). After him are Christian Thomasius (1655), Emil Erlenmeyer (1825), Zwentibold (870), John George, Elector of Brandenburg (1525), Augustus, Elector of Saxony (1526), and Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (1775).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Overbeck ranks 31. Before him are Carl Spitzweg (1808), Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876), Hendrik Goltzius (1558), Philipp Otto Runge (1777), Joseph Karl Stieler (1781), and Stefan Lochner (1410). After him are Oskar Schlemmer (1888), Max Klinger (1857), Lucian Freud (1922), Adam Elsheimer (1578), Anna Maria van Schurman (1607), and Erich Heckel (1883).

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