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Franz Xaver Winterhalter

1805 - 1873

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1865). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Xaver Winterhalter is the 253rd most popular painter (up from 263rd in 2019), the 682nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 674th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Painter.

Franz Xaver Winterhalter was a German painter who is most famous for his portraits of members of European royal families.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Franz Xaver Winterhalter ranks 253 out of 2,023. Before him are Ivan Kramskoi, Lorenzo Lotto, Alexandre Cabanel, Baldassare Peruzzi, Kees van Dongen, and Edwin Landseer. After him are Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, Judith Leyster, István Sándorfi, Hans Holbein the Elder, Sebastiano del Piombo, and Antoine-Jean Gros.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Franz Xaver Winterhalter ranks 12. Before him are Giuseppe Mazzini, William Rowan Hamilton, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Maria Anna of Bavaria, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Louis Auguste Blanqui. After him are Marie d'Agoult, Khachatur Abovian, Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Robert FitzRoy, Adalbert Stifter, and Robert Anderson. Among people deceased in 1873, Franz Xaver Winterhalter ranks 11. Before him are Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Alessandro Manzoni, Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, John of Saxony, and Edwin Landseer. After him are Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Vasil Levski, Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Louis Agassiz, Fyodor Tyutchev, and Émile Gaboriau.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Xaver Winterhalter ranks 682 out of 7,253. Before him are Max Reger (1873), Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895), Max Wolf (1863), Princess Caroline of Great Britain (1713), Erwin Neher (1944), and Felix Hoffmann (1868). After him are Karl Wolff (1900), Ottmar Hitzfeld (1949), Dietrich Eckart (1868), Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), Georg Büchner (1813), and Otto Carius (1922).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Franz Xaver Winterhalter ranks 23. Before him are Hans Baldung (1484), Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515), Hendrik Goltzius (1558), Gabriele Münter (1877), George Grosz (1893), and August Macke (1887). After him are Hans Holbein the Elder (1465), Bettina Heinen-Ayech (1937), Erwin Bowien (1899), Carl Spitzweg (1808), Max Beckmann (1884), and Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876).

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