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Anna Ancher

1859 - 1935

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Anna Ancher (18 August 1859 – 15 April 1935) was a Danish artist associated with the Skagen Painters, an artist colony on the northern point of Jylland, Denmark. She is considered to be one of Denmark's greatest visual artists. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Ancher is the 373rd most popular painter (down from 368th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 116th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Danish Painter.

Anna Ancher is most famous for her paintings of the Danish countryside.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Anna Ancher ranks 373 out of 2,023. Before her are Ferdinand Bol, Luigi Russolo, Karel Appel, Christian Krohg, Sesshū Tōyō, and Jean-Marc Nattier. After her are Alexander Roslin, Joseph Karl Stieler, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Lucio Fontana, Carlo Carrà, and Dosso Dossi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Anna Ancher ranks 23. Before her are Jean Jaurès, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Jerome K. Jerome, Pierre Janet, Hugo Junkers, and Alexander Samsonov. After her are Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Venustiano Carranza, Francisco Ferrer, Bertha Pappenheim, Peter Altenberg, and Diana Abgar. Among people deceased in 1935, Anna Ancher ranks 36. Before her are Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, Hugo Junkers, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Mihajlo Pupin, Panait Istrati, and Magnus Hirschfeld. After her are Ali of Hejaz, Paul Bourget, Rashid Rida, Johan Halvorsen, Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, and Kurt Tucholsky.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Anna Ancher ranks 124 out of 1,032. Before her are Michael Ancher (1849), Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark (1771), Eric II of Denmark (1090), Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1573), Princess Thyra of Denmark (1853), and Niels Gade (1817). After her are Magnus II of Sweden (1130), Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1753), Prince George of Denmark (1653), Harald Bohr (1887), Sveinn Björnsson (1881), and John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852).

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Among PAINTERS In Denmark

Among painters born in Denmark, Anna Ancher ranks 8. Before her are Nicolai Abildgaard (1743), Carl Bloch (1834), Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark (1656), Gerda Wegener (1886), Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864), and Michael Ancher (1849). After her are Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783), Jens Juel (1745), Asger Jorn (1914), Paul Gustav Fischer (1860), Marie Krøyer (1867), and Kurt Westergaard (1935).

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