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Rebecca Horn

1944 - 2024

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Rebecca Horn (24 March 1944 – 6 September 2024) was a German visual artist best known for her installation art, film directing and body modifications such as Einhorn (Unicorn), a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rebecca Horn has received more than 226,863 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Rebecca Horn is the 142nd most popular sculptor (up from 144th in 2019), the 3,363rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,242nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Sculptor.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Rebecca Horn ranks 142 out of 258Before her are Johan Tobias Sergel, Clara Westhoff, James Pradier, George Minne, Paolo Troubetzkoy, and Georg Kolbe. After her are Tony Cragg, Magda Frank, Jorge Oteiza, Tullio Lombardo, Dušan Džamonja, and Salvatore Garau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Rebecca Horn ranks 313Before her are Abbas, Muhammad Naji al-Otari, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Sharmila Tagore, Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, and Haim Saban. After her are Pierre Bachelet, Yitzhak Mordechai, Klaus Fichtel, Raymond Moody, Kevin Ayers, and Momčilo Perišić. Among people deceased in 2024, Rebecca Horn ranks 192Before her are Dabney Coleman, Niels Arestrup, Vasile Dîba, Yvonne Furneaux, Sjoukje Dijkstra, and Kees Rijvers. After her are Kelvin Felix, Chita Rivera, Gediminas Kirkilas, Jean Petit, Nabil Elaraby, and Aribert Reimann.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rebecca Horn ranks 3,363 out of 7,253Before her are Nuri Şahin (1988), Heinrich Kuhl (1797), Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801), Charles II, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1529), Gunta Stölzl (1897), and Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1880). After her are Karl Hohmann (1908), Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1758), Georg August Goldfuss (1782), Hans Jordan (1892), Bruno S. (1932), and Siegfried Bing (1838).

Among SCULPTORS In Germany

Among sculptors born in Germany, Rebecca Horn ranks 11Before her are Adolf von Hildebrand (1847), Igor Mitoraj (1944), Christian Daniel Rauch (1777), Adam Kraft (1450), Clara Westhoff (1878), and Georg Kolbe (1877). After her are Rudolf Belling (1886), Hans Multscher (1400), Reinhold Begas (1831), Balthasar Permoser (1651), Eva Hesse (1936), and Gerhard Marcks (1889).