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Jörg Breu the Elder

1475 - 1537

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Jörg Breu the Elder (c. 1475–1537), of Augsburg, was a painter of the German Danube school. He was the son of a weaver. He journeyed to Austria and created several multi-panel altarpieces there in 1500–02, such as the Melk Abbey altar (1502). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jörg Breu the Elder is the 1,290th most popular painter (down from 1,186th in 2019), the 3,502nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,217th in 2019) and the 119th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jörg Breu the Elder ranks 1,290 out of 2,023. Before him are Joseph Duplessis, Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, Ivan Marchuk, Aloïse Corbaz, Aleksandra Beļcova, and Marco Basaiti. After him are Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin, Bernard Picart, Salomon Gessner, Max Weber, Albert Küchler, and Jan Mostaert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1475, Jörg Breu the Elder ranks 19. Before him are Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Maximus the Greek, Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, Pierre Gringore, Khvandamir, and Marcantonio Trivisan. After him are Jan Mostaert, and Thomas Murner. Among people deceased in 1537, Jörg Breu the Elder ranks 9. Before him are Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence, Charles, Duke of Vendôme, Lorenzo di Credi, Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, Gerolamo Emiliani, and Pedro de Mendoza. After him are Lempira, and Thomas Murner.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jörg Breu the Elder ranks 3,504 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780), Karl Möbius (1825), Maria Clara Eimmart (1676), Paul Josef Cordes (1934), Herbert Grönemeyer (1956), and Georg Kolbe (1877). After him are Hanni Wenzel (1956), Kurt Jooss (1901), Christian Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1661), Tino Chrupalla (1975), Franz Kaiser (1891), and Albert III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1373).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Jörg Breu the Elder ranks 119. Before him are Fritz von Uhde (1848), Georg Pencz (1500), Carl Blechen (1798), Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721), Ludwig Richter (1803), and Johannes Lingelbach (1622). After him are Edgar Ende (1901), Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899), Christian Schad (1894), Georg Muche (1895), Paul Renner (1878), and Hans Hofmann (1880).

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