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Hans Erni

1909 - 2015

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Hans Erni (February 21, 1909 – March 21, 2015) was a Swiss graphic designer, painter, illustrator, engraver and sculptor. Born in Lucerne, the third of eight siblings, to a cabin cruiser engineer, he studied art at the Académie Julian in Paris and later in Berlin, and admired artists such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. He is known for having illustrated postage stamps, his lithographs for the Swiss Red Cross, his participation on the Olympic Committee as well as his activism. His 1939 works and first major public success was a mural titled Switzerland: "Vacation Land of the People" was commissioned and displayed for the national exhibition in Zürich. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Erni is the 1,321st most popular painter (up from 1,322nd in 2019), the 362nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 358th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Swiss Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Hans Erni ranks 1,321 out of 2,023. Before him are Fyodor Alekseyev, Joseph Cornell, Jan van Bijlert, Leon Wyczółkowski, Ambrosius Benson, and Wojciech Kossak. After him are Cuno Amiet, Dai Jin, Robert Motherwell, Jankel Adler, Olga Wisinger-Florian, and Kanō Tan'yū.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Hans Erni ranks 187. Before him are Juan Bosch, Leyla Mammadbeyova, Cilly Aussem, Carlo Agostoni, Ivan Bek, and Tewhida Ben Sheikh. After him are Pietro Arcari, Gabrielle Roy, Burl Ives, Max Aub, Margaret Sullavan, and Valentina Grizodubova. Among people deceased in 2015, Hans Erni ranks 194. Before him are Gunnar Hansen, Richard Johnson, Wan Li, Betsy Palmer, James Aldridge, and John Henry Holland. After him are Bernard Maris, Gerald Götting, Roddy Piper, Søren Kam, Karl Josef Becker, and Elżbieta Krzesińska.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Hans Erni ranks 362 out of 1,015. Before him are Klaus Huber (1924), Henri Colpi (1921), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), Albert Heim (1849), Philippe Jaccottet (1925), and Theodore Bibliander (1500). After him are Cuno Amiet (1868), Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice (1972), Kate Burton (1957), Albert Sechehaye (1870), Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (1484), and Paul Grüninger (1891).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Hans Erni ranks 26. Before him are Alexandre Calame (1810), Giovanni Giacometti (1868), Adolf Wölfli (1864), Urs Graf (1485), Aloïse Corbaz (1886), and Salomon Gessner (1730). After him are Cuno Amiet (1868), Antonio Ciseri (1821), Karl Bodmer (1809), Gottfried Honegger (1917), Pier Francesco Mola (1612), and Pipilotti Rist (1962).

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