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Agnes Block

1629 - 1704

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Agnes, or Agneta Block (29 October 1629, Emmerich am Rhein – 20 April 1704, Amsterdam) was a Dutch art collector and horticulturalist. She is most remembered as the compiler of an album of flower and insect paintings and as one of the first Europeans to successfully cultivate and fruit the pineapple outside of its native habitat. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Agnes Block is the 1,502nd most popular painter (down from 1,072nd in 2019), the 4,012th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,860th in 2019) and the 131st most popular German Painter.

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Among painters, Agnes Block ranks 1,502 out of 2,023. Before her are Nadezhda Udaltsova, Adolphe Yvon, Heinrich Campendonk, Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Albert Namatjira, and Kristjan Raud. After her are Nikifor, Frank Auerbach, Bart van der Leck, Karl Hofer, Paolo Salvati, and Bartolomeo della Gatta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1629, Agnes Block ranks 20. Before her are Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria, Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, Laurent Cassegrain, Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Symeon of Polotsk, and Niels Juel.  Among people deceased in 1704, Agnes Block ranks 19. Before her are John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen, Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Louis Bourdaloue, Menno van Coehoorn, Francesco Provenzale, and Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve. After her are Lorenzo Gafà, John Adolphus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, and Louis Hennepin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Agnes Block ranks 4,014 out of 7,253. Before her are Hans Felber (1889), Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852), Arthur Rudolph (1906), Karl Mai (1928), Gustav Spörer (1822), and Otto Siffling (1912). After her are Christa Stubnick (1933), Siegfried Buback (1920), Frank Auerbach (1931), Brigitte Mohnhaupt (1949), Rupert, Count Palatine of Veldenz (1506), and Jutta Kleinschmidt (1962).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Agnes Block ranks 131. Before her are Hans Hofmann (1880), Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1797), Virgil Solis (1514), Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790), J. C. Leyendecker (1874), and Heinrich Campendonk (1889). After her are Frank Auerbach (1931), Karl Hofer (1878), Cosmas Damian Asam (1686), Peter von Hess (1792), David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (1628), and Georg Schrimpf (1889).

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