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Jost Amman

1539 - 1591

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Jost Amman (June 13, 1539 – March 17, 1591) was a Swiss-German artist, celebrated chiefly for his woodcuts, done mainly for book illustrations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jost Amman has received more than 65,526 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jost Amman is the 797th most popular painter (down from 781st in 2019), the 214th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 200th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Swiss Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jost Amman ranks 797 out of 1,421. Before him are Vasily Polenov, Nicolas Lancret, Toriyama Sekien, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Marie Krøyer, and Walter Sickert. After him are Walter Crane, Joseph-Marie Vien, Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, Eugène Fromentin, Karel Dujardin, and Frans Pourbus the Younger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1539, Jost Amman ranks 12. Before him are Giovanni Andrea Doria, Catherine Vasa of Sweden, Chōsokabe Motochika, George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, and Louis VI, Elector Palatine. After him are Hasegawa Tōhaku, Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine, Humphrey Gilbert, Nicolò Donato, Pierre Pithou, and Olivier de Serres. Among people deceased in 1591, Jost Amman ranks 12. Before him are Dmitry of Uglich, Sen no Rikyū, Veronica Franco, Jacobus Gallus, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, and Luis de León. After him are Vespasiano I Gonzaga, Anna of Hesse, and Anna Sophia of Prussia.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jost Amman ranks 214 out of 876. Before him are Ferdinand Kübler (1919), André Abegglen (1909), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Pascal Couchepin (1942), Jean Ziegler (1934), and Carlo Fontana (1638). After him are Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698), Heinrich Glarean (1488), Jean Vanier (1928), Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (1718), Ubol Ratana (1951), and Louis of Cyprus (1436).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Jost Amman ranks 16. Before him are Albert Anker (1831), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Matthäus Merian (1593), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), Théophile Steinlen (1859), and Charles Gleyre (1806). After him are Eugène Grasset (1845), Anton Graff (1736), Giovanni Giacometti (1868), Adolf Wölfli (1864), Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767), and Bertha Wegmann (1847).

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