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Carl Blechen

1798 - 1840

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Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen (29 July 1798 – 23 July 1840) was a German landscape painter and a professor at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. His distinctive style was characteristic of the Romantic ideals of natural beauty. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Blechen is the 1,237th most popular painter (up from 1,307th in 2019), the 3,416th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,512th in 2019) and the 115th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Carl Blechen ranks 1,237 out of 2,023. Before him are Lucien Simon, Alfred Stevens, Franz Roubaud, Eirene, Hans Bol, and Kateryna Bilokur. After him are Georges Mathieu, Thomas Hill, Aleksander Gierymski, Wu Zhen, Wojciech Gerson, and Paul Ranson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Carl Blechen ranks 33. Before him are Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Macedonio Melloni, Charles Wilkes, Abigail Fillmore, and Alexei Lvov. After him are Paolo Savi, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, Sophronius IV of Alexandria, Anton Delvig, and Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling. Among people deceased in 1840, Carl Blechen ranks 33. Before him are Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Anne Lister, Pierre Dupont de l'Étang, Franz Meyen, and Karl Otfried Müller. After him are Frances Burney, John Cockerill, Joseph Johann von Littrow, José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, Anthony Carlisle, and Johann Michael Vogl.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Blechen ranks 3,418 out of 7,253. Before him are Thomas Nast (1840), Ferdinand von Mueller (1825), Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1731), Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805), Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1653), and Hermann Muhs (1894). After him are Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719), Hans Heyer (1943), Brian G. Marsden (1937), John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1596), Johann Samuel König (1712), and Walther Kadow (1900).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Carl Blechen ranks 115. Before him are Ambrosius Holbein (1494), Hans Rottenhammer (1564), Barthel Beham (1502), Albertus Pictor (1440), Fritz von Uhde (1848), and Georg Pencz (1500). After him are Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721), Ludwig Richter (1803), Johannes Lingelbach (1622), Jörg Breu the Elder (1475), Edgar Ende (1901), and Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899).

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