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Karl Hofer

1878 - 1955

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Karl Christian Ludwig Hofer or Carl Hofer (11 October 1878 – 3 April 1955) was a German expressionist painter. He was director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. One of the most prominent painters of expressionism, he never was a member of one of the expressionist painting groups, like "Die Brücke", but was influenced by their painters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Hofer has received more than 56,404 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Karl Hofer is the 1,295th most popular painter (down from 1,201st in 2019), the 3,469th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,282nd in 2019) and the 109th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Karl Hofer ranks 1,295 out of 1,421Before him are Jan van Kessel the Elder, José de Madrazo y Agudo, Kolë Idromeno, Carl Blechen, Aristides of Thebes, and Edwin Landseer. After him are Haddon Sundblom, Evert van Aelst, Mór Than, Gerhard Munthe, Rafael Arnaiz Barón, and Adam van Noort.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Karl Hofer ranks 129Before him are Emmy Destinn, Chen Jiongming, Ioannis Rallis, Massimo Bontempelli, Raymond Smith Dugan, and Oton Župančič. After him are Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Chen Qimei, Maxie Long, Sergio Osmeña, Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, and Konstantinos Paspatis. Among people deceased in 1955, Karl Hofer ranks 94Before him are Lin Huiyin, Ona Munson, Wallace Stevens, Tribhuvan of Nepal, Hans Hedtoft, and Theodor Plievier. After him are Helena Roerich, Ramón Muttis, Bill Vukovich, Louis Leon Thurstone, Willi Baumeister, and Tom Moore.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Hofer ranks 3,469 out of 6,142Before him are Hermann Wissmann (1853), Herbert Norkus (1916), August Leopold Crelle (1780), Walter Braunfels (1882), Jean Cabanis (1816), and Horst Blankenburg (1947). After him are Siegfried Buback (1920), Werner Liebrich (1927), Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (1935), Johann Heinrich Voss (1751), Karl Lauterbach (1963), and Lothar Wolleh (1930).

Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Karl Hofer ranks 109Before him are Emanuel Leutze (1816), Gerhard von Kügelgen (1772), Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721), Barthel Beham (1502), Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1797), and Carl Blechen (1798). After him are Cosmas Damian Asam (1686), Willi Baumeister (1889), Georg Muche (1895), Jörg Immendorff (1945), Christian Rohlfs (1849), and Heinrich Campendonk (1889).