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Top 30 Artists alive contemporary art painting

The most famous contemporary artists worldwide who work mainly as painters - ranked by attention since 2004, as measured by the Art Report method. These include, for example, oil paint on canvas or wood, gouache and watercolour, as well as fresco and its contemporary paint art variant the graffiti art.



ranking artist's name country lives in birth date born in medium total AR-Points
1 Andy Warhol US New York 1928 Pittsburgh painting 28601
 
2 Gerhard Richter DE Cologne 1932 Dresden painting 22086
 
3 Pablo Picasso ES Cannes 1881 Malaga painting 20163
 
4 Sigmar Polke DE Cologne 1941 Oels painting 16123
 
5 Martin Kippenberger DE Düsseldorf 1953 Dortmund painting 14295
 
6 Georg Baselitz DE Munich 1938 Deutschbaselitz painting 14225
 
7 Francis Alÿs BE Mexico City 1959 Antwerpen painting 13659
 
8 Ed Ruscha US Los Angeles 1937 Omaha painting 13564
 
9 Robert Rauschenberg US Captiva 1925 Port Arthur painting 13516
 
10 Anselm Kiefer DE Paris 1945 Donaueschingen painting 11309
 
11 Richard Prince PA New York 1949 Panama painting 10630
 
12 Roy Lichtenstein US New York 1923 New York painting 10295
 
13 Cy Twombly US Rome 1928 Lexington painting 9700
 
14 Yayoi Kusama JP New York 1929 Nagano painting 9457
 
15 Alighiero Boetti IT Rome 1940 Turin painting 8976
 
16 Jonathan Meese DE Berlin 1971 Tokio painting 8856
 
17 Jasper Johns US Stony Point 1930 Allendale painting 8837
 
18 Marlene Dumas ZA Amsterdam 1953 Kapstadt painting 8770
 
19 Günther Förg DE Munich 1952 Füssen painting 8631
 
20 Albert Oehlen DE La Palma 1954 Krefeld painting 8577
 
21 Imi Knoebel DE Düsseldorf 1940 Dessau painting 8241
 
22 Wilhelm Sasnal PL Warsaw 1972 Tarnow painting 8184
 
23 Lucio Fontana AR Varwese/IT 1899 Rosario de Santa Fe painting 8086
 
24 Josef Albers DE New Haven 1888 painting 8069
 
25 Claes Oldenburg US New York 1929 Stockholm painting 7937
 
26 Jörg Immendorff DE Düsseldorf 1945 Bleckede painting 7861
 
27 Max Ernst DE Paris 1891 Brühl painting 7673
 
28 Ellsworth Kelly US New York 1923 Newburgh painting 7514
 
29 Yves Klein FR Paris 1928 Nizza painting 7465
 
30 Ilya & Emilia Kabakov UA New York 1933 Dnejpropetrowsk painting 7438