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Konrad Witz

1400 - 1446

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Konrad Witz (1400/1410 probably in Rottweil, Germany – winter 1445/spring 1446 in Basel, in current day Switzerland) was a painter, active mainly in Basel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Konrad Witz has received more than 60,925 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Konrad Witz is the 395th most popular painter (down from 340th in 2019), the 1,107th most popular biography from Germany (down from 916th in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Painter.

Konrad Witz is most famous for being the first person to accurately measure the height of a mountain.

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  • 60.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Konrad Witz ranks 395 out of 1,421. Before him are Lyonel Feininger, Georg Baselitz, Fernand Khnopff, Frederic Leighton, Giambattista Pittoni, and Jean-Marc Nattier. After him are Ferdinand Bol, Marcantonio Raimondi, Max Klinger, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Bartholomeus Spranger, and Albert Anker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1400, Konrad Witz ranks 6. Before him are Fra Angelico, Gilles Binchois, Bartolomeo Colleoni, Gennadius Scholarius, and Owen Tudor. After him are Filarete, Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine, Alexander I of Moldavia, Ausiàs March, Vladislav II of Wallachia, and Hüma Hatun. Among people deceased in 1446, Konrad Witz ranks 3. Before him are Filippo Brunelleschi and Louis, Count of Vendôme. After him are Vittorino da Feltre, Catherine of France, Countess of Charolais, Nuno Tristão, and Vakhtang IV of Georgia.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Konrad Witz ranks 1,107 out of 6,142. Before him are Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1758), Christian Wirth (1885), Erwin Piscator (1893), Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal (1855), Otto Georg Thierack (1889), and Rodolphe Seeldrayers (1876). After him are Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut (1311), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511), Lothar de Maizière (1940), Margot Honecker (1927), and Max Klinger (1857).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Konrad Witz ranks 34. Before him are Stefan Lochner (1410), Lucian Freud (1922), Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Gabriele Münter (1877), Adam Elsheimer (1578), and Georg Baselitz (1938). After him are Max Klinger (1857), Wilhelm Busch (1832), Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884), Erich Heckel (1883), and Heinz Linge (1913).

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