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Astrid Kirchherr

1938 - 2020

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Astrid Kirchherr ([ˈastʁɪt ˈkɪʁçhɛʁ]; 20 May 1938 – 12 May 2020) was a German photographer and artist known for her association with the Beatles (along with her friends Klaus Voormann and Jürgen Vollmer) and her photographs of the band's original members — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best — during their early days in Hamburg. Kirchherr met artist Stuart Sutcliffe in the Kaiserkeller bar in Hamburg in 1960, where Sutcliffe was playing bass with the Beatles, and was later engaged to him, before his death in 1962. Although Kirchherr shot very few photographs after 1967, her early work has been exhibited in Hamburg, Bremen, London, Liverpool, New York City, Washington, D.C., Tokyo, Vienna, and at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. She published three limited-edition books of photographs. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Astrid Kirchherr is the 39th most popular photographer (up from 41st in 2019), the 2,372nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,414th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Astrid Kirchherr ranks 39 out of 148. Before her are Étienne Carjat, William Klein, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sophie Calle, Napoleon Sarony, and Peter Lindbergh. After her are David Bailey, Berenice Abbott, Lewis Hine, Andreas Gursky, Jan Saudek, and Philippe Halsman.

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Among people born in 1938, Astrid Kirchherr ranks 170. Before her are Jan Assmann, Isabelle Aubret, Hermann Nitsch, Johnny Rebel, Félix Mourinho, and Omar Abdel-Rahman. After her are David Bailey, Ronny Cox, Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Adolf Scherer, Diane Baker, and Bernadette Lafont. Among people deceased in 2020, Astrid Kirchherr ranks 169. Before her are Walid Muallem, Shirley Knight, Borys Paton, Pierre Nkurunziza, Louis Nirenberg, and Shin Kyuk-ho. After her are Nikolay Shmatko, Hans Tilkowski, Ellis Marsalis Jr., Paik Sun-yup, Winston Groom, and Robert Shavlakadze.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Astrid Kirchherr ranks 2,373 out of 7,253. Before her are Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria (1439), Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1700), Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1888), Johann Andreas Stein (1728), Sigmund Rascher (1909), and Friedrich Hossbach (1894). After her are Charlotte Bühler (1893), Wilhelm Boger (1906), Ruth Fuchs (1946), William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1682), Princess Hilda of Nassau (1864), and Irmina of Oeren (700).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among photographers born in Germany, Astrid Kirchherr ranks 7. Before her are Heinrich Hoffmann (1885), Helmut Newton (1920), Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856), Gunter Sachs (1932), August Sander (1876), and Guillermo Kahlo (1871). After her are Andreas Gursky (1955), Gisèle Freund (1908), Grete Stern (1904), Lothar Wolleh (1930), Karl Blossfeldt (1865), and Erich Salomon (1886).

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