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Charlotte Salomon

1917 - 1943

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Charlotte Salomon (16 April 1917 – 10 October 1943) was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is primarily remembered as the creator of an autobiographical series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel (Life? or Theater?: A Song-play), the largest known artwork made by a Jewish person who died in the Holocaust, consisting of 769 individual works painted between 1941 and 1943 in the south of France, while Salomon was in hiding from the Nazis. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charlotte Salomon is the 765th most popular painter (down from 682nd in 2019), the 2,160th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,865th in 2019) and the 71st most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Charlotte Salomon ranks 765 out of 2,023. Before her are Giovanni Baglione, Philipp Veit, Hans Bellmer, Amédée Ozenfant, Tang Yin, and Liang Kai. After her are Domenico Fetti, Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger, Frans Floris, Bartolomeo Vivarini, Marie Krøyer, and Vincenzo Catena.

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Among people born in 1917, Charlotte Salomon ranks 114. Before her are Andrew Wyeth, Nikolai Ogarkov, Giuseppe De Santis, Wilhelm Brasse, Phaedon Gizikis, and Pedro Infante. After her are Sharof Rashidov, Džemal Bijedić, Vera Lynn, June Allyson, John Connally, and Carlos Puebla. Among people deceased in 1943, Charlotte Salomon ranks 75. Before her are Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Johann Trollmann, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Senjūrō Hayashi, Lin Sen, and Wilhelm Kube. After her are Fethi Okyar, Jovan Dučić, Yekaterina Budanova, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Edsel Ford, and Anathon Aall.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Charlotte Salomon ranks 2,161 out of 7,253. Before her are Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria (1305), Heinrich Göbel (1818), Princess Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau (1666), Juliana of Stolberg (1506), Mina Witkojc (1893), and Hans Poelzig (1869). After her are Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1943), Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (1828), Willi Hennig (1913), Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern (1924), Michael Fassbender (1977), and Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1835).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Charlotte Salomon ranks 71. Before her are Joos van Cleve (1485), Govert Flinck (1615), Hans Hartung (1904), Maria Reiter (1911), Hans Richter (1888), and Philipp Veit (1793). After her are Albert Bierstadt (1830), Heinrich Aldegrever (1502), Franz von Lenbach (1836), Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794), Heinrich Hofmann (1824), and Wols (1913).

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