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Adolph Menzel

1815 - 1905

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Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (8 December 1815 – 9 February 1905) was a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings. Along with Caspar David Friedrich, he is considered one of the two most prominent German painters of the 19th century, and was the most successful artist of his era in Germany. First known as Adolph Menzel, he was knighted in 1898 and changed his name to Adolph von Menzel. His popularity in his native country, owing especially to his history paintings, was such that few of his major paintings left Germany, as many were quickly acquired by museums in Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolph Menzel is the 20th most popular artist (up from 21st in 2019), the 145th most popular biography from Poland (up from 182nd in 2019) and the most popular Polish Artist.

Adolph Menzel is most famous for his paintings of the life of Frederick the Great.

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Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Adolph Menzel ranks 20 out of 125. Before him are Luca Signorelli, Theo van Doesburg, Yves Klein, El Lissitzky, Anders Zorn, and Roy Lichtenstein. After him are David Hockney, Keith Haring, Kurt Schwitters, Akira Yoshizawa, Banksy, and Josef Albers.

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Among people born in 1815, Adolph Menzel ranks 8. Before him are Ada Lovelace, John Bosco, Otto of Greece, John A. Macdonald, George Boole, and Karl Weierstrass. After him are Johann Jakob Bachofen, Thomas Couture, Louis-Jules Trochu, Ildefons Cerdà, Ľudovít Štúr, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Among people deceased in 1905, Adolph Menzel ranks 7. Before him are Jules Verne, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Muhammad Abduh, Ernst Abbe, Ferdinand von Richthofen, and Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. After him are Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Louise Michel, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Carl Wernicke, Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, and Albert Edelfelt.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Adolph Menzel ranks 145 out of 1,694. Before him are Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Edward Sapir (1884), Anna Anderson (1896), Johann Gustav Droysen (1808), Bronisław Komorowski (1952), and Alexander Bogdanov (1873). After him are Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Albert Marth (1828), Géza I of Hungary (1040), Bolesław Bierut (1892), Otto Liman von Sanders (1855), and Isabella Jagiellon (1519).

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Among ARTISTS In Poland

Among artists born in Poland, Adolph Menzel ranks 1. After him are Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874).

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