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Wilhelm Busch

1832 - 1908

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Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch (14 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was a German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Busch has received more than 254,399 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Wilhelm Busch is the 409th most popular painter (up from 414th in 2019), the 1,181st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,100th in 2019) and the 36th most popular German Painter.

Wilhelm Busch is most famous for his book "Max and Moritz".

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  • 47

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Wilhelm Busch ranks 409 out of 1,421Before him are Cennino Cennini, Abraham Bloemaert, Antonis Mor, François Clouet, Bob Ross, and John Tenniel. After him are Jules Chéret, Giovanni Segantini, Cristofano Allori, Cosimo Tura, Paula Modersohn-Becker, and Albert Marquet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Wilhelm Busch ranks 24Before him are Felice Beato, Alfred von Waldersee, Andrew Dickson White, Osman Nuri Pasha, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, and Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier. After him are Michel Bréal, Émile Gaboriau, Henry Steel Olcott, Hudson Taylor, Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev, and Khurshidbanu Natavan. Among people deceased in 1908, Wilhelm Busch ranks 18Before him are Pat Garrett, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Butch Cassidy, Machado de Assis, and Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany. After him are Victorien Sardou, Radoje Domanović, Antoine Béchamp, Mikhail Chigorin, Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, and Enomoto Takeaki.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Busch ranks 1,181 out of 6,142Before him are Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (1473), Hans-Dieter Flick (1965), Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1680), Henry Suso (1295), Nena (1960), and Maria Sophia of Neuburg (1666). After him are Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1690), Ernst-Günther Schenck (1904), Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876), August von Wassermann (1866), Hermann Graf (1912), and Ernst Lindemann (1894).

Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Wilhelm Busch ranks 36Before him are Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Gabriele Münter (1877), Adam Elsheimer (1578), Georg Baselitz (1938), Konrad Witz (1400), and Max Klinger (1857). After him are Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884), Erich Heckel (1883), Heinz Linge (1913), Anna Maria van Schurman (1607), and Anselm Feuerbach (1829).