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Matthias Grünewald

1480 - 1528

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Matthias Grünewald (c. 1470 – 31 August 1528; also known as Mathis Gothart Nithart) was a German Renaissance painter of religious works who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century. Only ten paintings—including several polyptychs—and thirty-five drawings survive, all religious, although many others were lost at sea on their way to Sweden as war booty. He was obscure until the late nineteenth century, when many of his paintings were attributed to Albrecht Dürer, who is now seen as his stylistic antithesis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matthias Grünewald has received more than 486,176 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Matthias Grünewald is the 106th most popular painter (down from 92nd in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from Germany (down from 187th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Painter.

Matthias Grünewald is most famous for his painting, The Crucifixion.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Matthias Grünewald ranks 106 out of 2,023. Before him are Filippo Lippi, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Sofonisba Anguissola, Bronzino, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, and Vittore Carpaccio. After him are Claude Lorrain, Guido Reni, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Georges de La Tour, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, and Ivan Aivazovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1480, Matthias Grünewald ranks 4. Before him are Ferdinand Magellan, Lucrezia Borgia, and Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy. After him are Albrecht Altdorfer, Johann Georg Faust, Lorenzo Lotto, Joachim Patinir, Philibert II, Duke of Savoy, Saint Cajetan, Götz von Berlichingen, and Palma Vecchio. Among people deceased in 1528, Matthias Grünewald ranks 2. Before him is Albrecht Dürer. After him are Giovanni da Verrazzano, Georg von Frundsberg, Palma Vecchio, Pánfilo de Narváez, Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, Balthasar Hubmaier, Clarice de' Medici, Rana Sanga, Edzard I, Count of East Frisia, and Urs Graf.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Matthias Grünewald ranks 227 out of 7,253. Before him are Eduard Bernstein (1850), Walter Ulbricht (1893), Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710), Hans Zimmer (1957), Max Stirner (1806), and J. Hans D. Jensen (1907). After him are Johann Pachelbel (1653), Johannes Stark (1874), Magda Goebbels (1901), Otto von Guericke (1602), Max Scheler (1874), and Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Matthias Grünewald ranks 6. Before him are Albrecht Dürer (1471), Peter Paul Rubens (1577), Caspar David Friedrich (1774), Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472), and Max Ernst (1891). After him are Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), Hans Memling (1435), Franz Marc (1880), Hans von Aachen (1552), Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), and Emil Nolde (1867).

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