PHOTOGRAPHER

Wilhelm Brasse

1917 - 2012

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Wilhelm Brasse (3 December 1917 – 23 October 2012) was a Polish professional photographer and a prisoner in Auschwitz during World War II. He became known as the "famous photographer of Auschwitz concentration camp." His life and work were the subject of the 2005 Polish television documentary film The Portraitist (Portrecista), which first aired in the Proud to Present series on the Polish TVP1 on 1 January 2006. Brasse was of mixed Austrian-Polish descent. He learned photography in Katowice at the studio of his aunt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Brasse has received more than 334,193 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Brasse is the 37th most popular photographer, the 492nd most popular biography from Poland and the most popular Polish Photographer.

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  • 55.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Wilhelm Brasse ranks 37 out of 148. Before him are Nan Goldin, Guillermo Kahlo, Claude Cahun, Edward Weston, Lewis Hine, and Jacques Henri Lartigue. After him are Peter Lindbergh, Andreas Gursky, Philippe Halsman, Astrid Kirchherr, Carl Van Vechten, and Paul Strand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Wilhelm Brasse ranks 121. Before him are Barry Nelson, El Santo, Kirk Kerkorian, Robert Manzon, Đỗ Mười, and Carlos Puebla. After him are Paul Frère, Yakov Pavlov, Andrew Wyeth, Maya Deren, Wieland Wagner, and Văn Tiến Dũng. Among people deceased in 2012, Wilhelm Brasse ranks 114. Before him are Bal Thackeray, Sergio Pininfarina, Kaneto Shindo, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Malam Bacai Sanhá, and Dorothea Tanning. After him are Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Alexander Arutiunian, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Angelo Dundee, Jack Tramiel, and Lefter Küçükandonyadis.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wilhelm Brasse ranks 492 out of 1,694. Before him are Józef Haller (1873), Jan Jesenius (1566), Andrzej Szarmach (1950), Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756), Henryk Kasperczak (1946), and Karl Gützlaff (1803). After him are Elisabeth Becker (1923), Alexander Imich (1903), Marek Grechuta (1945), Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (1890), Zbigniew of Poland (1070), and Vladimir Chelomey (1914).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Poland

Among photographers born in Poland, Wilhelm Brasse ranks 1. After him are Peter Lindbergh (1944), and Lotte Jacobi (1896).

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