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Max Klinger

1857 - 1920

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Max Klinger (18 February 1857 – 5 July 1920) was a German artist who produced significant work in painting, sculpture, prints and graphics, as well as writing a treatise articulating his ideas on art and the role of graphic arts and printmaking in relation to painting. He is associated with symbolism, the Vienna Secession, and Jugendstil (Youth Style) the German manifestation of Art Nouveau. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Klinger has received more than 202,600 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Max Klinger is the 399th most popular painter (down from 397th in 2019), the 1,096th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,113th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular German Painter.

Max Klinger is most famous for his illustrations of the Oresteia, a trilogy of plays by Aeschylus.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Max Klinger ranks 399 out of 2,023. Before him are Ferdinand Bol, Thomas Cole, Gino Severini, Frederic Edwin Church, Jules Chéret, and André Masson. After him are Shitao, Eva Gonzalès, Asger Jorn, Tom of Finland, Andrea Solari, and Joseph Kosuth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Max Klinger ranks 35. Before him are Karl Pearson, George Hendrik Breitner, Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, Otto von Below, Edward Emerson Barnard, and Aleksandr Lyapunov. After him are Georges Gilles de la Tourette, 12th Dalai Lama, Antoni Grabowski, Ida Tarbell, Cécile Chaminade, and Wilhelm Johannsen. Among people deceased in 1920, Max Klinger ranks 24. Before him are Dmitri Ivanovsky, Rosalia Lombardo, John Reed, Nectarios of Aegina, Benito Pérez Galdós, and Venustiano Carranza. After him are Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria, Essad Pasha Toptani, Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Eleanor H. Porter, Prince Joachim of Prussia, and Abraham Kuyper.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Klinger ranks 1,096 out of 7,253. Before him are William, Duke of Nassau (1792), Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1934), Carl Stamitz (1745), Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1628), Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha (1601), and Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (1939). After him are Alfred Brehm (1829), Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676), Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (1229), Robert Michels (1876), Wilhelm Gustloff (1895), and Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg (1670).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Max Klinger ranks 33. Before him are Hendrik Goltzius (1558), Philipp Otto Runge (1777), Joseph Karl Stieler (1781), Stefan Lochner (1410), Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), and Oskar Schlemmer (1888). After him are Lucian Freud (1922), Adam Elsheimer (1578), Anna Maria van Schurman (1607), Erich Heckel (1883), Konrad Witz (1400), and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884).

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