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Konrad Witz

1400 - 1446

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Konrad Witz (ca.1400/1410 – winter 1445/spring 1446) was a German and Swiss painter, active mainly in Basel. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Konrad Witz is the 399th most popular painter (up from 449th in 2019), the 1,074th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,238th in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Painter.

Konrad Witz is most famous for being the first person to accurately measure the height of a mountain.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Konrad Witz ranks 399 out of 2,023. Before him are Stefan Lochner, Pietro Cavallini, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, Melozzo da Forlì, Meindert Hobbema, and Karl Bryullov. After him are Palma Vecchio, Jules Pascin, Giambattista Pittoni, Joseph Kosuth, Georg Baselitz, and Oskar Schlemmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1400, Konrad Witz ranks 8. Before him are Gennadius Scholarius, Andronikos V Palaiologos, Gilles Binchois, Bartolomeo Colleoni, Gjon Kastrioti, and Hüma Hatun. After him are Filarete, Ruy González de Clavijo, John, Constable of Portugal, Andronikos Palaiologos, Charles I of Albret, and Dabiša of Bosnia. Among people deceased in 1446, Konrad Witz ranks 1. After him are Antipope Clement VIII, Catherine of France, Countess of Charolais, Louis, Count of Vendôme, Vittorino da Feltre, Nuno Tristão, and Vakhtang IV of Georgia.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Konrad Witz ranks 1,074 out of 7,253. Before him are Hanns Eisler (1898), Maria Barbara Bach (1684), Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1370), Alfred Naujocks (1911), John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg (1625), and Klaus Hasselmann (1931). After him are Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel (1886), Uli Hoeneß (1952), Marian Gold (1954), Franz Ziereis (1905), and W. G. Sebald (1944).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Konrad Witz ranks 37. Before him are Anna Maria van Schurman (1607), Philipp Otto Runge (1777), Joseph Karl Stieler (1781), Johan Zoffany (1733), Erich Heckel (1883), and Stefan Lochner (1410). After him are Georg Baselitz (1938), Oskar Schlemmer (1888), Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Michael Wolgemut (1434), Adam Elsheimer (1578), and Godfrey Kneller (1646).

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