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Wolf Vostell

1932 - 1998

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Wolf Vostell (14 October 1932 – 3 April 1998) was a German painter and sculptor, considered one of the early adopters of video art and installation art and pioneer of Happenings and Fluxus. Techniques such as blurring and Dé-coll/age are characteristic of his work, as is embedding objects in concrete and the use of television sets in his works. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolf Vostell has received more than 169,752 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Wolf Vostell is the 594th most popular painter (down from 481st in 2019), the 1,607th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,355th in 2019) and the 57th most popular German Painter.

Wolf Vostell is most famous for his work in the Dada and Fluxus movements, as well as his work with kinetic art.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

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  • 58.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Wolf Vostells by language

Over the past year Wolf Vostell has had the most page views in the with 18,485 views, followed by English (15,505), and Spanish (14,113). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (62.65%), Breton (44.40%), and Finnish (40.49%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Wolf Vostell ranks 594 out of 2,023. Before him are Francesco del Cossa, Juan de Flandes, Konstantin Makovsky, Jasper Johns, Jozef Israëls, and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. After him are Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, Erwin Bowien, Margarita Luti, Jules Breton, Carl Bloch, and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Wolf Vostell ranks 106. Before him are Wojciech Kilar, Ingemar Johansson, Joe Zawinul, Antonio Tejero, Rodion Shchedrin, and Paolo Villaggio. After him are Amrish Puri, Joseph Zen, Charly Gaul, Stuart Hall, Aharon Appelfeld, and Dieter Rams. Among people deceased in 1998, Wolf Vostell ranks 61. Before him are Lloyd Bridges, Kamala Sohonie, Verner Panton, Gulzarilal Nanda, Fritz Honka, and Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche. After him are Anne Desclos, Agostino Casaroli, Marie-Louise Meilleur, Haxhi Lleshi, Ferenc Deák, and Roddy McDowall.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolf Vostell ranks 1,607 out of 7,253. Before him are Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1578), Johann Georg Pisendel (1687), Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (1860), Fritz Honka (1935), Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1784), and Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel (1789). After him are Carl Oberg (1897), Erwin Bowien (1899), Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921), Philipp Lahm (1983), and Bastian Schweinsteiger (1984).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Wolf Vostell ranks 57. Before him are Hans Burgkmair (1473), Joachim von Sandrart (1606), Maria Reiter (1911), Heinrich Füger (1751), Joos van Cleve (1485), and Oswald Achenbach (1827). After him are Erwin Bowien (1899), Felix Nussbaum (1904), Ludolf Bakhuizen (1630), Andreas Achenbach (1815), Karl von Piloty (1826), and Max Pechstein (1881).

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