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Karl Blossfeldt

1865 - 1932

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Karl Blossfeldt (13 June 1865 – 9 December 1932) was a German photographer and sculptor. He is best known for his close-up photographs of plants and living things, published in 1929 as Urformen der Kunst. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Blossfeldt has received more than 414,440 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Karl Blossfeldt is the 76th most popular photographer (down from 50th in 2019), the 3,773rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,776th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Photographer.

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  • 50.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Karl Blossfeldt ranks 76 out of 148. Before him are Berry Berenson, Gertrude Käsebier, Cornell Capa, Gisèle Freund, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, and Guy Bourdin. After him are Paolo Monti, Werner Bischof, Weegee, René Burri, Lothar Wolleh, and William Eggleston.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Karl Blossfeldt ranks 112. Before him are Albéric Magnard, Wilson Bentley, Jehanne D'Alcy, Robert W. Chambers, Mahmud Tarzi, and Albert Aurier. After him are Uchida Kōsai, Pierre Weiss, Jacques Mieses, Kristjan Raud, Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky, and Pekka Halonen. Among people deceased in 1932, Karl Blossfeldt ranks 87. Before him are Hafez Ibrahim, Josephine Crowell, Charles Fort, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, Mikhail Pokrovsky, and Gertrude Jekyll. After him are Duke Alexander of Oldenburg, Ali Rıza Pasha, Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau, Hermann Gunkel, John Walter Gregory, and Agha Petros.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Blossfeldt ranks 3,773 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel (1804), Glückel of Hameln (1646), Wolf Hoffmann (1959), Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (1495), Bruno Apitz (1900), and Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg (1653). After him are Bernd Förster (1956), Caspar Olevian (1536), Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1706), Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen (1762), Nur Fettahoğlu (1980), and Michael Weikath (1962).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among photographers born in Germany, Karl Blossfeldt ranks 11. Before him are August Sander (1876), Guillermo Kahlo (1871), Andreas Gursky (1955), Astrid Kirchherr (1938), Erich Salomon (1886), and Gisèle Freund (1908). After him are Lothar Wolleh (1930), Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897), Grete Stern (1904), Heinrich Zille (1858), Annemarie Heinrich (1912), and Ellen von Unwerth (1954).

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