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Georg Schrimpf

1889 - 1938

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Georg Schrimpf (13 February 1889 – 19 April 1938) was a German painter and graphic artist. Along with Otto Dix, George Grosz and Christian Schad, Schrimpf is broadly acknowledged as a main representative of the art movement Neue Sachlichkeit (usually translated New Objectivity), which developed, in Weimar Germany, from 1919 to 1933, as an outgrowth of Expressionism. Schrimpf was listed as a producer of Degenerate Art by the German National Socialist government in the 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Schrimpf is the 1,556th most popular painter (down from 1,553rd in 2024), the 4,148th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,079th in 2019) and the 137th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Georg Schrimpf ranks 1,556 out of 2,023Before him are Chuck Close, Fanny Churberg, Vicente López Portaña, Pieter Pourbus, Frans Pourbus the Elder, and Adolph Tidemand. After him are Henri Le Fauconnier, Simon Hantaï, Christian Albrecht Jensen, Helena Westermarck, L. A. Ring, and Maria Wiik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Georg Schrimpf ranks 192Before him are Hans Felber, Alfonso Reyes, Grigory Levenfish, Emma Asson, Gottfried Fuchs, and Zofia Zamenhof. After him are Erick-Oskar Hansen, Ronald Fairbairn, Abbās al-Aqqād, Nathan Altman, Willi Baumeister, and Kōichi Kido. Among people deceased in 1938, Georg Schrimpf ranks 157Before him are Jane Toppan, Ahn Changho, Édouard-Alfred Martel, Axel Ljung, Teodor Axentowicz, and Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis. After him are Helena Westermarck, Christian Rohlfs, Ayna Sultanova, Alexander Svechin, Herbert Jamison, and Pearl White.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Schrimpf ranks 4,150 out of 7,253Before him are Elisabeth Schumann (1888), Sandra Hüller (1978), Loris Karius (1993), Johannes Baptista von Albertini (1769), Ernst Herzfeld (1879), and Ken Adam (1921). After him are Christian Albrecht Jensen (1792), Herbert Wehner (1906), Peter Joseph Lenné (1789), Georg Buschner (1925), Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708), and Christian Rohlfs (1849).

Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Georg Schrimpf ranks 137Before him are Agnes Block (1629), Frank Auerbach (1931), Karl Hofer (1878), Cosmas Damian Asam (1686), Peter von Hess (1792), and David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (1628). After him are Christian Albrecht Jensen (1792), Christian Rohlfs (1849), Carl Joseph Begas (1794), Hermann Zapf (1918), Willi Baumeister (1889), and Jan Boeckhorst (1604).