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Albert Anker

1831 - 1910

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Albert Samuel Anker (1 April 1831 – 16 July 1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss social life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Anker is the 421st most popular painter (down from 352nd in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 102nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swiss Painter.

Albert Anker is most famous for his paintings of the Swiss Alps.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Albert Anker ranks 421 out of 2,023. Before him are Rachel Ruysch, Giuseppe Castiglione, Adam Elsheimer, Bartholomeus Spranger, Fede Galizia, and Salaì. After him are Lyonel Feininger, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Eva Gonzalès, Sidney Nolan, Pieter Lastman, and André Masson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Albert Anker ranks 26. Before him are Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria, Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil, Nadezhda von Meck, Nikolai Leskov, and Ilya Ulyanov. After him are Peter Tait, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, Constantin Meunier, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, and Isabella Bird. Among people deceased in 1910, Albert Anker ranks 31. Before him are Jules Renard, Stanislao Cannizzaro, William Huggins, William Holman Hunt, Alexander Agassiz, and Jean Moréas. After him are Mikhail Vrubel, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Karl Lueger, Auguste Charlois, John La Farge, and Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Albert Anker ranks 119 out of 1,015. Before him are Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821), César Ritz (1850), Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747), Charles Bonnet (1720), Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773), and Friedrich Miescher (1844). After him are Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), Gottfried Keller (1819), Paul Guldin (1577), Didier Queloz (1966), Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), and Sigismond Thalberg (1812).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Albert Anker ranks 10. Before him are Henry Fuseli (1741), Johannes Itten (1888), Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Félix Vallotton (1865), H. R. Giger (1940), and Charles Gleyre (1806). After him are Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Matthäus Merian (1593), Théophile Steinlen (1859), Anton Graff (1736), and Jost Amman (1539).

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