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Karl Friedrich Lessing

1808 - 1880

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Karl Friedrich Lessing, also known by Carl Friedrich Lessing (15 February 1808, Breslau – 4 January 1880, Karlsruhe), was a German historical and landscape painter, grandnephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and one of the main exponents of the Düsseldorf school of painting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Friedrich Lessing has received more than 61,558 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Karl Friedrich Lessing is the 1,179th most popular painter (down from 1,083rd in 2019), the 670th most popular biography from Poland (down from 628th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Polish Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Karl Friedrich Lessing ranks 1,179 out of 2,023. Before him are Aleksander Gierymski, Giovanni Fattori, Gilbert Stuart, Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval, Richard Wilson, and Mór Than. After him are Ugolino di Nerio, Taddeo di Bartolo, Tony Robert-Fleury, Alfred Stevens, Bridget Riley, and Orest Kiprensky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Karl Friedrich Lessing ranks 37. Before him are Mindon Min, Venancio Flores, Emma Darwin, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso, and Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval. After him are Auguste Franchomme, Johann Benedict Listing, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, Prince Frederick of Württemberg, Caterina Scarpellini, and James Nasmyth. Among people deceased in 1880, Karl Friedrich Lessing ranks 33. Before him are Sanford Robinson Gifford, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, Robert Fortune, Constantin Hansen, Edwin Drake, and Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel. After him are August Karl von Goeben, Alphonse Pénaud, Arthur Morin, Lucretia Mott, Napoléon Henri Reber, and Peter Wilhelm Lund.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Karl Friedrich Lessing ranks 670 out of 1,694. Before him are Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (1755), Lazarus Fuchs (1833), Aleksander Gierymski (1850), Henryk Jabłoński (1909), Władysław Bartoszewski (1922), and Philip I, Duke of Pomerania (1515). After him are Mykhailo Verbytskyi (1815), Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia (1943), Günther Pancke (1899), Friedrich Gilly (1772), Robert Kubica (1984), and Hermann Rauschning (1887).

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Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Karl Friedrich Lessing ranks 20. Before him are Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1819), Otto Freundlich (1878), Daniel Chodowiecki (1726), Stanisław Szukalski (1893), Jankel Adler (1895), and Aleksander Gierymski (1850). After him are Louis Marcoussis (1878), Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852), Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745), Wojciech Gerson (1831), Juliusz Kossak (1824), and Max Weber (1881).

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