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Wilhelm Busch

1832 - 1908

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Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch (14 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was a German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter. He published wildly innovative illustrated tales that remain influential to this day. Busch drew on the tropes of folk humour as well as a profound knowledge of German literature and art to satirize contemporary life, any kind of piety, Catholicism, Philistinism, religious morality, bigotry, and moral uplift. His mastery of drawing and verse became deeply influential for future generations of comic artists and vernacular poets. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Busch is the 481st most popular painter (up from 499th in 2019), the 1,331st most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,350th in 2019) and the 50th most popular German Painter.

Wilhelm Busch is most famous for his book "Max and Moritz".

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Wilhelm Busch ranks 481 out of 2,023. Before him are Richard Serra, Abraham Bloemaert, Heinrich Füger, Valentin Serov, Johan Christian Dahl, and Cosimo Tura. After him are Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Ernest Meissonier, Séraphine Louis, Jan van Scorel, Giovanni Boldini, and Maerten de Vos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Wilhelm Busch ranks 26. Before him are Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow, Jules Ferry, Osman Nuri Pasha, Felice Beato, Alfred von Waldersee, and Émile Gaboriau. After him are Michel Bréal, Louis Paul Cailletet, William Le Baron Jenney, Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev, Henry Steel Olcott, and Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier. Among people deceased in 1908, Wilhelm Busch ranks 19. Before him are Victorien Sardou, Butch Cassidy, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Radoje Domanović, Joseph Maria Olbrich, and Mikhail Chigorin. After him are Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Machado de Assis, Pat Garrett, Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev, and John of Kronstadt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Busch ranks 1,331 out of 7,253. Before him are Gert Fröbe (1913), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810), Hermann Lotze (1817), Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833), Nena (1960), and Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden (1704). After him are Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511), Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787), Kurt Tucholsky (1890), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), Sebastian Münster (1488), and Arnold Janssen (1837).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Wilhelm Busch ranks 50. Before him are Hannah Höch (1889), Heinz Linge (1913), Max Klinger (1857), Sigmar Polke (1941), Lucian Freud (1922), and Heinrich Füger (1751). After him are Anselm Feuerbach (1829), Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751), Joachim von Sandrart (1606), Andreas Achenbach (1815), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884), and Anton von Werner (1843).

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