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Fritz Bleyl

1880 - 1966

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Hilmar Friedrich Wilhelm Bleyl, known as Fritz Bleyl (8 October 1880 – 19 August 1966), was a German artist of the Expressionist school, and one of the four founders of artist group Die Brücke ("The Bridge"). He designed graphics for the group including, for their first show, a poster, which was banned by the police. He left the group after only two years, when he married, to look after his family, and did not exhibit publicly thereafter. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fritz Bleyl is the 1,150th most popular painter (down from 1,134th in 2019), the 3,180th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,041st in 2019) and the 105th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Fritz Bleyl ranks 1,150 out of 2,023. Before him are Bartolomeo Carducci, Franz Kline, Willem Drost, Kanō Motonobu, Vincenzo Foppa, and Massimo Stanzione. After him are Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, Anna Palm de Rosa, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Davide Ghirlandaio, A. R. Penck, and Christiane Kubrick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Fritz Bleyl ranks 110. Before him are Princess Thyra of Denmark, Marie Stopes, Mihail Sadoveanu, Jeannette Rankin, Samuel Jones, and Louis Charles Breguet. After him are Arnold Gesell, Broncho Billy Anderson, Zequinha de Abreu, Azim Azimzade, Tudor Arghezi, and Viggo Larsen. Among people deceased in 1966, Fritz Bleyl ranks 107. Before him are Victor Kravchenko, Elio Vittorini, Sutan Sjahrir, George Ohsawa, Gaspar Cassadó, and Otto von Knobelsdorff. After him are Guillermo Gorostiza, J. F. C. Fuller, Reino Ragnar Lehto, Felix von Luckner, Lenny Bruce, and Agostinho Fortes Filho.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz Bleyl ranks 3,182 out of 7,253. Before him are Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony (1617), Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths (1759), Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826), Fritz von Opel (1899), Ian Murdock (1973), and Wilhelm Kühne (1837). After him are Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834), Princess Marie of Baden (1834), William VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1651), Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801), Anita Berber (1899), and Hans Litten (1903).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Fritz Bleyl ranks 105. Before him are Hans von Kulmbach (1476), Anni Albers (1899), Johann Baptist Zimmermann (1680), Carlos Schwabe (1866), Albrecht Adam (1786), and Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805). After him are A. R. Penck (1939), Christiane Kubrick (1932), Caspar Netscher (1639), Ambrosius Holbein (1494), Hans Rottenhammer (1564), and Barthel Beham (1502).

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