Most searched in 2024
At the beginning of this year, we also took a look at which artists you searched for most frequently last year. Here are the top 20:
1. Andy Warhol
2. Caspar David Friedrich
3. Pablo Picasso
4. Salvador Dali
5. Giotto
6. René Magritte
7. Max Ernst
8. Hannah Höch
9. Caravaggio
10. Gerhard Richter
11. Artemisia Gentileschi
12. Otto Dix
13. Hilma af Klint
14. Frida Kahlo
15. Gabriele Münter
16. Wassily Kandinsky
17. Albrecht Dürer
18. Vincent van Gogh
19. Roy Lichtenstein
20. Cindy Sherman.
If we compare this ranking with last year’s, there have been some shifts. Last year’s number 1 “Pablo Picasso” has slipped down two places and number 2 “Vincent van Gogh” to 18th place. Andy Warhol”, who was not even in the top 20 last year, has climbed to the very top and ‘Caspar David Friedrich’ has also made a leap from 8 to 2. “Hannah Höch” was the most searched-for artist both last year and this year:
1. Pablo Picasso
2. Vincent van Gogh
3. Max Ernst
4. Hannah Höch
5. René Magritte
6. Claude Monet
7. Gabriele Münter
8. Caspar David Friedrich
9. Paula Modersohn-Becker
10. Hilma af Klint
11. Caravaggio
12. Albrecht Dürer
13. Otto Dix
14. Frida Kahlo
15. Nan Goldin
16. Henri Matisse
17. Gerhard Richter
18. Kandinsky
19. Rebecca Horn
20. Cindy Sherman.
The Art Compass(Kunstkompass) has provided a different kind of ranking every year since 1970. The journalist Linde Rohr-Bongard compiles this list of the world’s most sought-after contemporary artists, evaluating and weighting them with points.
The top 10 most important artists globally according to The Art Compass:
1. Gerhard Richter
2. Bruce Nauman
3. Georg Baselitz
4. Rosemarie Trockel
5. Tony Cragg
6. Cindy Sherman
7. Ólafur Elíasson
8. Anselm Kiefer
9. William Kentridge
10. Imi Knoebel.
Interesting, but not surprising, that there are so few points of intersection here, isn’t it?
