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Jost Amman

1539 - 1591

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Jost Amman (June 13, 1539 – March 17, 1591) was a Swiss-German artist, celebrated chiefly for his woodcuts, done mainly for book illustrations. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jost Amman is the 789th most popular painter (down from 542nd in 2019), the 217th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 139th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Swiss Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jost Amman ranks 789 out of 2,023. Before him are Agatharchus, Cornelis de Vos, Wen Zhengming, Frans Pourbus the Younger, Anna Chromý, and Shen Zhou. After him are Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Roberto Matta, Eugène Fromentin, Jan Asselijn, Adriaen van de Velde, and Heinrich Aldegrever.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1539, Jost Amman ranks 13. Before him are Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine, Louis VI, Elector Palatine, Giovanni Andrea Doria, Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and Chōsokabe Motochika. After him are Hasegawa Tōhaku, Yi San-hae, Nicolò Donato, Humphrey Gilbert, Pierre Pithou, and Olivier de Serres. Among people deceased in 1591, Jost Amman ranks 12. Before him are Sen no Rikyū, Dmitry of Uglich, Jacobus Gallus, Veronica Franco, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, and Luis de León. After him are Anna Sophia of Prussia, Anna of Hesse, Vespasiano I Gonzaga, and Emilie of Saxony.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jost Amman ranks 217 out of 1,015. Before him are Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Anjou (1420), Ivan Rakitić (1988), Bernard Tschumi (1944), Giuseppe Motta (1871), Jeremias Gotthelf (1797), and Jacob Sprenger (1435). After him are Emma Jung (1882), Jean Ziegler (1934), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), André Abegglen (1909), Claude Nicollier (1944), and Joseph Deiss (1946).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Jost Amman ranks 16. Before him are Albert Anker (1831), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Matthäus Merian (1593), Théophile Steinlen (1859), and Anton Graff (1736). After him are Eugène Grasset (1845), Bertha Wegmann (1847), Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767), Alexandre Calame (1810), Giovanni Giacometti (1868), and Adolf Wölfli (1864).

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