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Cosmas Damian Asam

1686 - 1739

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Cosmas Damian Asam (29 September 1686 – 10 May 1739) was a German painter and architect during the late Baroque period. Born in Benediktbeuern, he lived in Rome from 1711 to 1713 to study at the Accademia di San Luca with Carlo Maratta. In 1713, Asam won the Academy's first prize for his drawing of Miracle of Saint Pio. In Germany, he worked with his brother Egid Quirin, a sculptor and stucco worker, on building and decorating entirely new churches (such as the Asam Church in Munich) or redesigning churches in the Baroque style (Regensburg—Benedictine Monastery Church of St. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cosmas Damian Asam is the 1,516th most popular painter (down from 1,437th in 2019), the 4,057th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,815th in 2019) and the 134th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Cosmas Damian Asam ranks 1,516 out of 2,023. Before him are Julius Hübner, Eugène Devéria, Fan Kuan, Jacob Adriaensz Backer, Henri Lebasque, and Wilhelm Bendz. After him are Eva Bonnier, Giovanni Santi, E. H. Shepard, Peter von Hess, Teodor Axentowicz, and Slava Raškaj.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1686, Cosmas Damian Asam ranks 15. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Vasily Tatishchev, Antoine de Jussieu, Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz, Domenico Montagnana, and Andrey Osterman. After him are Giuseppe Simone Assemani, and Jan Frederik Gronovius. Among people deceased in 1739, Cosmas Damian Asam ranks 10. Before him are Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Saliha Sultan, James Anderson, Reinhard Keiser, Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach. After him are Dick Turpin, and George Lillo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Cosmas Damian Asam ranks 4,059 out of 7,253. Before him are Gernot Rohr (1953), Leopold I, Prince of Lippe (1767), Torsten Frings (1976), Roman Weidenfeller (1980), Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen (1843), and Karl-Heinz Metzner (1923). After him are Rupert Mayer (1876), Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1536), Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (1821), Edgar Reitz (1932), Basilius Besler (1561), and Irm Hermann (1942).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Cosmas Damian Asam ranks 134. Before him are Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790), J. C. Leyendecker (1874), Heinrich Campendonk (1889), Agnes Block (1629), Frank Auerbach (1931), and Karl Hofer (1878). After him are Peter von Hess (1792), David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (1628), Georg Schrimpf (1889), Christian Albrecht Jensen (1792), Christian Rohlfs (1849), and Carl Joseph Begas (1794).

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