Top 50 Painters in Germany

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest painters in Germany, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 261 painters tracked in Germany, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Frida Kahlo, Leonardo da Vinci and Luke the Evangelist lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 5,377,838 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 481,815, and the largest, Frida Kahlo, reaches around 2,099,605 people in Germany. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Germany who actively engage with each painter, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Germany and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Frida Kahlo	2,099,605	7.6%	Painter	Arts & Culture
2	Leonardo da Vinci	1,640,558	6.6%	Painter	Arts & Culture
3	Luke the Evangelist	1,637,675	30.6%	Painter	Politics & Society
4	El Greco	1,301,969	44.7%	Painter	Arts & Culture
5	Michelangelo	1,133,050	7.8%	Painter	Arts & Culture
6	Gerhard Richter	1,110,373	45.4%	Painter	Arts & Culture
7	Vincent van Gogh	997,034	5.2%	Painter	Arts & Culture
8	Caspar David Friedrich	816,200	68.6%	Painter	Arts & Culture
9	Andy Warhol	812,287	6.8%	Painter	Arts & Culture
10	Albrecht Dürer	761,569	61.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
11	Gustav Klimt	673,287	13.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
12	Franz Marc	619,524	48.6%	Painter	Arts & Culture
13	Pablo Picasso	597,751	6.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
14	Claude Monet	543,587	7.7%	Painter	Arts & Culture
15	Keith Haring	515,988	6.9%	Painter	Arts & Culture
16	Hieronymus Bosch	510,554	18.3%	Painter	Politics & Society
17	Max Ernst	462,070	35.9%	Painter	Literature
18	Rembrandt	455,156	8.2%	Painter	Arts & Culture
19	Joseph Beuys	436,842	50.6%	Painter	Arts & Culture
20	Edvard Munch	413,596	11.1%	Painter	Arts & Culture
21	John Wayne Gacy	403,370	6.5%	Painter	Politics & Society
22	Paul Klee	368,429	15.7%	Painter	Arts & Culture
23	James Rizzi	364,491	68.5%	Painter	Arts & Culture
24	Evel Knievel	352,242	12.4%	Painter	Movies & TV
25	Jackson Pollock	312,743	5.7%	Painter	Arts & Culture
26	Emil Nolde	311,087	79.8%	Painter	Arts & Culture
27	Piet Mondrian	310,085	16.8%	Painter	Arts & Culture
28	Marc Chagall	299,022	15.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
29	Wassily Kandinsky	261,900	7.2%	Painter	Arts & Culture
30	Raphael	244,311	3.7%	Painter	Arts & Culture
31	Gabriele Münter	224,546	58.4%	Painter	Arts & Culture
32	Otto Dix	223,190	53.8%	Painter	Arts & Culture
33	Francis Bacon	210,957	8.2%	Painter	Politics & Society
34	H. R. Giger	210,423	9.5%	Painter	Literature
35	Sebastião Salgado	190,273	8.8%	Painter	Literature
36	August Macke	189,191	58.1%	Painter	Arts & Culture
37	Henri Matisse	185,724	5.9%	Painter	Arts & Culture
38	Roy Lichtenstein	174,913	8.3%	Painter	Arts & Culture
39	Jeff Koons	170,198	8.4%	Painter	Arts & Culture
40	Salvador Dalí	160,259	5.9%	Painter	Arts & Culture
41	David Hockney	158,371	4.1%	Painter	Arts & Culture
42	Jonathan Meese	154,542	70.7%	Painter	Arts & Culture
43	Damien Hirst	145,890	6.4%	Painter	Arts & Culture
44	Norman Rockwell	139,571	9.1%	Painter	Arts & Culture
45	Titian	139,532	14.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
46	Mark Rothko	136,890	7.2%	Painter	Arts & Culture
47	Paul Gauguin	136,272	6.8%	Painter	Arts & Culture
48	Peter Paul Rubens	125,349	19.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
49	Thomas Kinkade	124,210	8.3%	Painter	Arts & Culture
50	Camille Pissarro	124,111	23.1%	Painter	Arts & Culture