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Michael Ancher

1849 - 1927

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Michael Peter Ancher (9 June 1849 – 19 September 1927) was a Danish realist artist, and widely known for his paintings of fishermen, the Skagerak and the North Sea, and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Ancher has received more than 152,212 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Michael Ancher is the 505th most popular painter (up from 654th in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 184th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Danish Painter.

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  • 8.30

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Michael Ancher ranks 505 out of 1,421. Before him are Kurt Westergaard, Gu Kaizhi, Michael Wolgemut, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Guo Xi, and Johan Jongkind. After him are Ivan Bilibin, Elisabetta Sirani, Alessandro Magnasco, Bernard Buffet, Françoise Gilot, and Paris Bordone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Michael Ancher ranks 31. Before him are Archduchess Mathilda of Austria, Lord Randolph Churchill, Empress Shōken, Joseph Gallieni, Saionji Kinmochi, and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius. After him are W. T. Stead, Basil Zaharoff, Paul Rée, Jean Béraud, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, and Princess Alice of Parma. Among people deceased in 1927, Michael Ancher ranks 31. Before him are Wilhelm Johannsen, Max Hoffmann, Enrique Simonet, Shote Galica, Li Dazhao, and James Oliver Curwood. After him are Saad Zaghloul, Boris Kustodiev, Vilhelm Thomsen, Sisowath of Cambodia, Louise Abbéma, and Miguel, Duke of Braganza.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Michael Ancher ranks 147 out of 893. Before him are Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg (1796), Charles I, Count of Flanders (1083), Hastein (810), Olaf I of Denmark (1050), Kurt Westergaard (1935), and Giancarlo Esposito (1958). After him are Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland (1456), Bent Larsen (1935), Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784), Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt (1659), Morten Olsen (1949), and Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783).

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Among PAINTERS In Denmark

Among painters born in Denmark, Michael Ancher ranks 8. Before him are Gerda Wegener (1886), Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark (1656), Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864), Nicolai Abildgaard (1743), Anna Ancher (1859), and Kurt Westergaard (1935). After him are Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783), Carl Bloch (1834), Asger Jorn (1914), Jens Juel (1745), Marie Krøyer (1867), and Christen Købke (1810).

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