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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 groups, like "Die Brücke", but was influenced by their artists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Hofer has received more than 62,576 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Karl Hofer is the 1,400th most popular painter (down from 1,294th in 2019), the 3,727th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,465th in 2019) and the 125th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Karl Hofer ranks 1,400 out of 2,023. Before him are Virgil Solis, Jesús Rafael Soto, Anni Albers, Austin Osman Spare, Giusto de' Menabuoi, and Óscar Domínguez. After him are Igor Grabar, Jan Mostaert, Katsukawa Shunshō, Mårten Eskil Winge, Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, and Vicente López Portaña.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Karl Hofer ranks 135. Before him are Chen Jiongming, Pierre Fatou, Anna Coleman Ladd, Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, Max Dehn, and Agner Krarup Erlang. After him are Glenn Curtiss, Gyula Krúdy, Chen Qimei, Raymond Smith Dugan, Oton Župančič, and Ernst Hoppenberg. Among people deceased in 1955, Karl Hofer ranks 101. Before him are Otto Gessler, Hans Hedtoft, Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark, Sybille Schmitz, Helena Roerich, and Louis Leon Thurstone. After him are Guy Ropartz, Emmanuel de Martonne, Jenő Fuchs, Jonni Myyrä, Robert E. Sherwood, and Theodor Plievier.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Hofer ranks 3,727 out of 7,253. Before him are Rudi Glöckner (1929), Adam von Trott zu Solz (1909), Irm Hermann (1942), Hanni Wenzel (1956), Erich Pommer (1889), and Leonor Michaelis (1875). After him are Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1892), Robert Jungk (1913), Karl Arnold (1901), Peter Brötzmann (1941), Adolf Martens (1850), and Theodore Levitt (1925).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Karl Hofer ranks 125. Before him are Christian Schad (1894), Edgar Ende (1901), A. R. Penck (1939), Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790), Virgil Solis (1514), and Anni Albers (1899). After him are Jan Boeckhorst (1604), Hermann Zapf (1918), Alexander Kanoldt (1881), Cosmas Damian Asam (1686), Jörg Immendorff (1945), and Christian Rohlfs (1849).

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