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Michael Wolgemut

1434 - 1519

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Michael Wolgemut (formerly spelt Wohlgemuth; 1434 – 30 November 1519) was a German painter and printmaker, who ran a workshop in Nuremberg. He is best known as having taught the young Albrecht Dürer. The importance of Wolgemut as an artist rests not only on his own individual works, but also on the fact that he was the head of a large workshop, in which many different branches of the fine arts were carried on by a great number of pupil-assistants, including Albrecht Dürer, who completed an apprenticeship with him between 1486 and 1489. In his atelier large altar-pieces and other sacred paintings were executed, and also elaborate carved painted wood retables, consisting of crowded subjects in high relief, richly decorated with gold and colour. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Wolgemut is the 412th most popular painter (up from 525th in 2019), the 1,122nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,422nd in 2019) and the 41st most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Michael Wolgemut ranks 412 out of 2,023. Before him are Domenico Veneziano, Maarten van Heemskerck, Norman Rockwell, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Koloman Moser, and Lorenzo Monaco. After him are Federico Zuccari, Robert Rauschenberg, Rachel Ruysch, Giuseppe Castiglione, Adam Elsheimer, and Bartholomeus Spranger.

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Among people born in 1434, Michael Wolgemut ranks 2. Before him is Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress. After him are Yolande of Valois, Charles II, Duke of Bourbon, Antonio Grimani, Janus Pannonius, Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Constantine Lascaris, Mary of Guelders, and Kanō Masanobu. Among people deceased in 1519, Michael Wolgemut ranks 7. Before him are Leonardo da Vinci, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, Lucrezia Borgia, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and Johann Tetzel. After him are Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua, Juan de Flandes, Maddalena de' Medici, Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne, Hōjō Sōun, and Ambrosius Holbein.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Michael Wolgemut ranks 1,122 out of 7,253. Before him are Günther Rall (1918), Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (1939), Fritz Haarmann (1879), Peter Sloterdijk (1947), Ernst Schröder (1841), and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778). After him are Gustav Noske (1868), Heinrich Barth (1821), John Polanyi (1929), Tannhäuser (1205), Heinrich von Vietinghoff (1887), and Emil Maurice (1897).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Michael Wolgemut ranks 41. Before him are Erich Heckel (1883), Stefan Lochner (1410), Konrad Witz (1400), Georg Baselitz (1938), Oskar Schlemmer (1888), and Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789). After him are Adam Elsheimer (1578), Godfrey Kneller (1646), Hannah Höch (1889), Heinz Linge (1913), Max Klinger (1857), and Sigmar Polke (1941).

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