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J. C. Leyendecker

1874 - 1951

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Joseph Christian Leyendecker (March 23, 1874 – July 25, 1951) was one of the most prominent and financially successful freelance commercial artists in the United States. He was active between 1895 and 1951 producing drawings and paintings for hundreds of posters, books, advertisements, and magazine covers and stories. He is best known for his 80 covers for Collier's Weekly, 322 covers for The Saturday Evening Post, and advertising illustrations for B. Kuppenheimer men's clothing and Arrow brand shirts and detachable collars. He was one of the few known reportedly gay artists working in the early-twentieth century United States. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. J. C. Leyendecker is the 1,482nd most popular painter (down from 1,478th in 2019), the 3,970th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,900th in 2019) and the 129th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, J. C. Leyendecker ranks 1,482 out of 2,023. Before him are Qian Xuan, Joseph Ducreux, Henry Raeburn, Nadir Afonso, Carl Fredrik Hill, and Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo. After him are Mykhailo Boychuk, Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, Pekka Halonen, Giottino, Maria Wodzińska, and Gonzales Coques.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, J. C. Leyendecker ranks 151. Before him are Jerzy Żuławski, Madeleine Pelletier, Leonard Eugene Dickson, Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, Lucien Démanet, and Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov. After him are Oskari Mantere, James H. Johnson, Manuel Díaz, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Charles W. Gilmore, and Henry Travers. Among people deceased in 1951, J. C. Leyendecker ranks 119. Before him are Louis Adamic, Henry Taylor, Sabiha Kasimati, Riad Al Solh, Roland Jacobi, and Gustave Sandras. After him are Leopold Andrian, Carl Albert Andersen, Haj Ali Razmara, Will Keith Kellogg, William Birdwood, and Zoltán Mechlovits.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, J. C. Leyendecker ranks 3,972 out of 7,253. Before him are Irmgard Möller (1947), Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg (1815), Johann Beckmann (1739), Wilhelm Solf (1862), Justus Möser (1720), and Theodor Curtius (1857). After him are Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804), Frederic Lewy (1885), Otto Deßloch (1889), Franz Josef Ruprecht (1814), Wilfried Dietrich (1933), and Andrey Osterman (1686).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, J. C. Leyendecker ranks 129. Before him are Georg Muche (1895), Paul Renner (1878), Hans Hofmann (1880), Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1797), Virgil Solis (1514), and Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790). After him are Heinrich Campendonk (1889), Agnes Block (1629), Frank Auerbach (1931), Karl Hofer (1878), Cosmas Damian Asam (1686), and Peter von Hess (1792).

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