Most searched in 2025
As every year, in our first newsletter of the year we’re exploring your search terms in the image archive this time as well. Which artists have you searched for most often? Here are your top 20:
1. Caspar David Friedrich
2. Pablo Picasso
3. Vincent van Gogh
4. Salvador Dalí
5. Cindy Sherman
6. Hannah Höch
7. Gabriele Münter
8. Kurt Schwitters
9. Daumier
10. Frida Kahlo
11. Paul Klee
12. Wolfgang Tillmans
13. Caravaggio
14. Claude Monet
15. Paula Modersohn-Becker
16. Edward Hopper
17. Gerhard Richter
18. Rebecca Horn
19. Artemisia Gentileschi
20. Andy Warhol
There’s a new order at the top. Last year Andy Warhol was number 1. This time he just barely made it into the top 20. Caspar David Friedrich has moved up from second to first place and Pablo Picasso from 3rd to 2nd. New this year are Kurt Schwitters, Daumier, Paul Klee, Wolfgang Tilmans, Claude Monet, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Edward Hopper and Rebecca Horn, and no longer included are Giotto, René Magritte, Max Ernst, Otto Dix, Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, Albrecht Dürer and Roy Lichtenstein.
Other 2025 rankings of artists do not reflect the search behavior of a group. Instead, they employ different criteria and evaluations. The “Art Compass” (ger. “Kunstkompass”) is compiled annually by journalist Linde Rohr-Bongard and published in a magazine called “Capital”. Its evaluation and point system considers factors such as exhibitions of more than 300 museums, reviews in specialist journals, acquisitions by leading museums, and awards. This ranking continues to top Gerhard Richter as the world’s most important artist.
