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Hub artists per era

Most-connected artists born in each decade. Surfaces who was central to their generation's social network.

2026-05-11T16:01:53+00:00

For each birth-year decade, the subgraph of artists born in that decade is analyzed. Degree is total Getty-recorded connections; betweenness is how often that artist sits on shortest paths between others in the same era (the social-broker measure).

1500s — 2881 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Frans the elder Floris — 29 connections (b. 1509)
  2. Lambert Lombard — 14 connections (b. 1506)
  3. Perino del Vaga — 13 connections (b. 1501)
  4. Francesco Primaticcio — 13 connections (b. 1504)
  5. Pieter the elder Coecke van Aelst — 13 connections (b. 1502)
  6. Andreas II Walther — 12 connections (b. 1500)
  7. Jacopo Bassano — 11 connections (b. 1505)
  8. Geoffroy Dumonstier — 11 connections (b. 1500)
  9. Colijn de Nole — 10 connections (b. 1500)
  10. Nicolò dell' Abate — 9 connections (b. 1508)

1510s — 515 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Giorgio Vasari — 18 connections (b. 1511)
  2. Cornelis II Floris — 17 connections (b. 1510)
  3. Prospero Fontana — 15 connections (b. 1512)
  4. Antonio IV Badile — 14 connections (b. 1518)
  5. Pieter I Bruegel — 13 connections (b. 1515)
  6. Jean de Nole — 10 connections (b. 1516)
  7. Jacob Colijn de Nole — 10 connections (b. 1513)
  8. Robert de Nole — 10 connections (b. 1516)
  9. Jan Floris — 10 connections (b. 1514)
  10. Grand-Duke of Tuscany Cosimo I — 10 connections (b. 1519)

1520s — 544 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Paolo Veronese — 17 connections (b. 1528)
  2. Bartolomeo Passarotti — 13 connections (b. 1529)
  3. Giambologna — 12 connections (b. 1529)
  4. Hans II Walther — 12 connections (b. 1526)
  5. Christoph III Walther — 12 connections (b. 1520)
  6. Alberto Alberti — 11 connections (b. 1525)
  7. Taddeo Zuccaro — 10 connections (b. 1529)
  8. Jacques Floris — 10 connections (b. 1524)
  9. Cesare Vecellio — 9 connections (b. 1521)
  10. Felice Brusasorci — 9 connections (b. 1529)

1530s — 577 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Federico Zuccaro — 16 connections (b. 1536)
  2. Teotónio of Braganza — 15 connections (b. 1530)
  3. Philip Galle — 14 connections (b. 1537)
  4. Santi di Tito — 12 connections (b. 1536)
  5. Christoph II Walther — 11 connections (b. 1534)
  6. Denys Calvaert — 10 connections (b. 1535)
  7. Marten de the elder Vos — 10 connections (b. 1532)
  8. Willem de Nole — 10 connections (b. 1530)
  9. Prince of Orange William I — 10 connections (b. 1533)
  10. Giovanni Battista Naldini — 9 connections (b. 1530)

1540s — 598 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Frans I Francken — 17 connections (b. 1542)
  2. Bartholomäus I Kilian — 15 connections (b. 1548)
  3. Gillis van II Coninxloo — 14 connections (b. 1544)
  4. Hieronymus I Francken — 13 connections (b. 1540)
  5. Abraham Richter — 13 connections (b. 1542)
  6. Jacopo il giovane Palma — 12 connections (b. 1544)
  7. Christoph IV Walther — 12 connections (b. 1542)
  8. Michael Walther — 12 connections (b. 1544)
  9. Jan I Snellinck — 10 connections (b. 1544)
  10. Karel van I Mander — 10 connections (b. 1548)

1550s — 679 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Hendrick Goltzius — 22 connections (b. 1558)
  2. Lodovico Carracci — 20 connections (b. 1555)
  3. Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II — 18 connections (b. 1552)
  4. Domenico Cresti — 17 connections (b. 1559)
  5. Agostino Carracci — 17 connections (b. 1557)
  6. Jan I Sadeler — 13 connections (b. 1550)
  7. Jeremias Richter — 13 connections (b. 1550)
  8. Cornelis III Floris — 12 connections (b. 1551)
  9. Andreas III Walther — 12 connections (b. 1550)
  10. Andrea Spezza — 11 connections (b. 1550)

1560s — 738 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Abraham Bloemaert — 36 connections (b. 1566)
  2. Annibale Carracci — 19 connections (b. 1560)
  3. Jan the elder Brueghel — 18 connections (b. 1568)
  4. Michiel Jansz. van Miereveld — 16 connections (b. 1567)
  5. Hans I Rottenhammer — 14 connections (b. 1564)
  6. Hendrick Cornelisz. Vroom — 14 connections (b. 1566)
  7. Aegidius II Sadeler — 14 connections (b. 1560)
  8. Giuseppe Cesari — 13 connections (b. 1568)
  9. Jan Anthonisz. van Ravesteyn — 11 connections (b. 1560)
  10. Pieter II Brueghel — 11 connections (b. 1564)

1570s — 1684 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Peter Paul Rubens — 46 connections (b. 1577)
  2. Guido Reni — 35 connections (b. 1575)
  3. Francesco Albani — 22 connections (b. 1578)
  4. Frans Hals — 19 connections (b. 1576)
  5. Giulio Parigi — 17 connections (b. 1571)
  6. Lucas Kilian — 16 connections (b. 1579)
  7. Hans Schwanthaler — 16 connections (b. 1576)
  8. Matteo Rosselli — 15 connections (b. 1578)
  9. Queen consort of Henry IV Marie de Médicis — 13 connections (b. 1573)
  10. Sebastian Walther — 12 connections (b. 1576)

1580s — 879 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Domenichino — 20 connections (b. 1581)
  2. Wolfgang Kilian — 15 connections (b. 1581)
  3. Frans II Francken — 13 connections (b. 1581)
  4. Christian Richter — 13 connections (b. 1582)
  5. Giovanni Bilivert — 12 connections (b. 1585)
  6. Ferdinando Duke of Mantua Gonzaga — 12 connections (b. 1587)
  7. Rocco Spezza — 11 connections (b. 1581)
  8. Pietro Spazio — 11 connections (b. 1589)
  9. Esaias van de I Velde — 10 connections (b. 1587)
  10. Raphael II Sadeler — 10 connections (b. 1584)

1590s — 862 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Pietro da Cortona — 37 connections (b. 1596)
  2. Simon Vouet — 30 connections (b. 1590)
  3. Anthony van Dyck — 23 connections (b. 1599)
  4. Guercino — 20 connections (b. 1591)
  5. Nicolas Poussin — 18 connections (b. 1594)
  6. Mathias I Füssli — 17 connections (b. 1598)
  7. Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp — 16 connections (b. 1594)
  8. Philip I Roettiers — 14 connections (b. 1596)
  9. Gilles Silvestre — 14 connections (b. 1590)
  10. Jacob the elder Jordaens — 13 connections (b. 1593)

1600s — 1984 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Rembrandt van Rijn — 47 connections (b. 1606)
  2. Joachim von I Sandrart — 18 connections (b. 1606)
  3. Jan Davidsz. de Heem — 15 connections (b. 1606)
  4. King of Portugal John IV — 15 connections (b. 1604)
  5. King of France Louis XIII — 13 connections (b. 1601)
  6. Artus I Quellinus — 12 connections (b. 1609)
  7. King of England Charles I — 12 connections (b. 1600)
  8. Peeter I Verbrugghen — 11 connections (b. 1609)
  9. Francesco Furini — 11 connections (b. 1603)
  10. Francisco Rizi — 11 connections (b. 1608)

1610s — 1027 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Charles Le Brun — 34 connections (b. 1619)
  2. David II Teniers — 19 connections (b. 1610)
  3. Peter Lely — 18 connections (b. 1618)
  4. Gerrit Dou — 17 connections (b. 1613)
  5. Philips Wouwerman — 14 connections (b. 1619)
  6. François Silvestre — 14 connections (b. 1610)
  7. Jan Both — 13 connections (b. 1615)
  8. Pierre I Mignard — 12 connections (b. 1612)
  9. Sébastien Bourdon — 12 connections (b. 1616)
  10. Salvator Rosa — 12 connections (b. 1615)

1620s — 1146 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Carlo Cignani — 30 connections (b. 1628)
  2. Nicolaes Berchem — 21 connections (b. 1621)
  3. François Girardon — 19 connections (b. 1628)
  4. Nicolaes the elder Berchem — 16 connections (b. 1620)
  5. Lorenzo Pasinelli — 16 connections (b. 1629)
  6. Philipp Kilian — 15 connections (b. 1628)
  7. Israël Silvestre — 15 connections (b. 1621)
  8. Johann Baptist Kilian — 15 connections (b. 1623)
  9. Valerio Castello — 14 connections (b. 1624)
  10. Albrecht Richter — 13 connections (b. 1623)

1630s — 1106 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. King of France Louis XIV — 38 connections (b. 1638)
  2. Carlo Fontana — 19 connections (b. 1634)
  3. Thomas Schwanthaler — 17 connections (b. 1634)
  4. Bartholomäus II Kilian — 17 connections (b. 1630)
  5. Mathias II Füssli — 17 connections (b. 1639)
  6. Johann Heinrich Roos — 15 connections (b. 1631)
  7. Joseph Roettiers — 15 connections (b. 1635)
  8. Ciro Ferri — 14 connections (b. 1634)
  9. Luca Giordano — 14 connections (b. 1634)
  10. Jan Roettiers — 14 connections (b. 1631)

1640s — 947 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Godfrey Kneller — 21 connections (b. 1646)
  2. Gérard de Lairesse — 20 connections (b. 1640)
  3. Antoine Coysevox — 16 connections (b. 1640)
  4. Marc Antonio Franceschini — 15 connections (b. 1648)
  5. King of Portugal Pedro II — 15 connections (b. 1648)
  6. King of Portugal Alfonso VI — 15 connections (b. 1643)
  7. Queen of Portugal Maria Francisca — 15 connections (b. 1646)
  8. Duc d'Orléans Philippe I — 15 connections (b. 1640)
  9. Bon Boullogne — 14 connections (b. 1649)
  10. Philip II Roettiers — 14 connections (b. 1640)

1650s — 1079 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Francesco Solimena — 30 connections (b. 1657)
  2. Ferdinando Galli Bibiena — 19 connections (b. 1657)
  3. Hyacinthe Rigaud — 19 connections (b. 1659)
  4. Uigyeom — 19 connections (b. 1650)
  5. Giovan Gioseffo dal Sole — 18 connections (b. 1654)
  6. Nicolas de Largillière — 15 connections (b. 1656)
  7. Duchesse d'Orléans Elisabeth-Charlotte — 15 connections (b. 1652)
  8. Francesco Trevisani — 14 connections (b. 1656)
  9. Wolfgang Philipp Kilian — 14 connections (b. 1654)
  10. Francesco Galli Bibiena — 13 connections (b. 1659)

1660s — 960 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Antonio Balestra — 17 connections (b. 1666)
  2. Benedetto Luti — 15 connections (b. 1666)
  3. Louis de I Silvestre — 15 connections (b. 1669)
  4. Johann Daniel Preissler — 15 connections (b. 1666)
  5. Jeremias Kilian — 15 connections (b. 1665)
  6. Charles-François Silvestre — 14 connections (b. 1667)
  7. James Roettiers — 14 connections (b. 1663)
  8. Norbert Roettiers — 14 connections (b. 1665)
  9. François Charles de Silvestre — 14 connections (b. 1667)
  10. Felice Torelli — 13 connections (b. 1667)

1670s — 1983 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Melchior Füssli — 18 connections (b. 1677)
  2. Bernard Picart — 17 connections (b. 1673)
  3. Mathias III Füssli — 17 connections (b. 1671)
  4. Duc d'Orléans Philippe II — 15 connections (b. 1674)
  5. Johann Jakob Kilian — 15 connections (b. 1678)
  6. Georges Roettiers — 14 connections (b. 1675)
  7. Alexandre Silvestre — 14 connections (b. 1672)
  8. Duc d'Orléans Philippe II — 14 connections (b. 1674)
  9. Christian III Richter — 13 connections (b. 1676)
  10. Wilhelm II Richter — 13 connections (b. 1670)

1680s — 1109 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. King of Spain Philip V — 23 connections (b. 1683)
  2. Sebastiano Conca — 19 connections (b. 1680)
  3. Giovanni Battista Piazzetta — 17 connections (b. 1683)
  4. Georg Kilian — 17 connections (b. 1683)
  5. Rudolf I Füssli — 17 connections (b. 1680)
  6. Johann Franz Schwanthaler — 16 connections (b. 1683)
  7. Johann Josef Schwanthaler — 16 connections (b. 1681)
  8. Paul Kilian — 15 connections (b. 1687)
  9. Francis Roettiers — 14 connections (b. 1685)
  10. Marie Catherine de Silvestre — 14 connections (b. 1680)

1690s — 1076 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Queen consort of Philip V Elizabeth Farnese — 24 connections (b. 1692)
  2. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo — 21 connections (b. 1696)
  3. Jean the younger Restout — 19 connections (b. 1692)
  4. Suzanne Elisabeth Silvestre — 16 connections (b. 1694)
  5. Agostino Masucci — 15 connections (b. 1690)
  6. Joseph Charles Roettiers — 14 connections (b. 1691)
  7. Nicolas Charles de Silvestre — 14 connections (b. 1699)
  8. Jean Baptiste Pierre Coclers — 13 connections (b. 1696)
  9. Charles de Saint-Albin — 13 connections (b. 1698)
  10. Johann Justin Preissler — 12 connections (b. 1698)

1700s — 2253 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. François Boucher — 38 connections (b. 1703)
  2. Pompeo Batoni — 35 connections (b. 1708)
  3. Jacques Philippe Le Bas — 29 connections (b. 1707)
  4. Carle van Loo — 28 connections (b. 1705)
  5. Charles-Joseph Natoire — 21 connections (b. 1700)
  6. Robert West — 21 connections (b. 1705)
  7. Johann Caspar Füssli — 19 connections (b. 1706)
  8. Jacques-François Blondel — 17 connections (b. 1705)
  9. Rudolf II Füssli — 16 connections (b. 1709)
  10. René-Michel Slodtz — 15 connections (b. 1705)

1710s — 1451 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Joseph-Marie the elder Vien — 39 connections (b. 1716)
  2. Johann Georg Wille — 25 connections (b. 1715)
  3. Claude-Joseph Vernet — 24 connections (b. 1714)
  4. King of France Louis XV — 24 connections (b. 1710)
  5. King of Spain Ferdinand VI — 18 connections (b. 1713)
  6. Queen consort of José I Mariana Vitória — 17 connections (b. 1718)
  7. Franz Mathias Schwanthaler — 16 connections (b. 1714)
  8. Jean-Baptiste Descamps — 16 connections (b. 1715)
  9. Jacques Augustin de Silvestre — 15 connections (b. 1719)
  10. Aert Schouman — 15 connections (b. 1710)

1720s — 1736 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Joshua Reynolds — 24 connections (b. 1723)
  2. Francesco Bartolozzi — 22 connections (b. 1727)
  3. Johann Heinrich I Tischbein — 20 connections (b. 1722)
  4. Anton Raphael Mengs — 19 connections (b. 1728)
  5. Jean-Baptiste Greuze — 17 connections (b. 1725)
  6. Gabriel François Doyen — 17 connections (b. 1726)
  7. Johann Peter I Schwanthaler — 16 connections (b. 1720)
  8. Giovanni Battista Casanova — 15 connections (b. 1728)
  9. Christoph Gustav Kilian — 15 connections (b. 1724)
  10. Duc d'Orléans Louis-Philippe — 15 connections (b. 1725)

1730s — 1930 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Benjamin West — 31 connections (b. 1738)
  2. Rudolf III Füssli — 18 connections (b. 1737)
  3. George Martin Kilian — 15 connections (b. 1739)
  4. Queen of Portugal Maria I — 15 connections (b. 1734)
  5. Hubert Maurer — 14 connections (b. 1738)
  6. Jacob Philipp Hackert — 14 connections (b. 1737)
  7. King of Great Britain George III — 14 connections (b. 1738)
  8. Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers — 14 connections (b. 1736)
  9. George Romney — 14 connections (b. 1734)
  10. Anton Graff — 13 connections (b. 1736)

1740s — 2197 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Jacques-Louis David — 157 connections (b. 1748)
  2. François André Vincent — 28 connections (b. 1746)
  3. Gerard van Spaendonck — 27 connections (b. 1746)
  4. Jurriaan Andriessen — 25 connections (b. 1742)
  5. Kim Hongdo — 25 connections (b. 1745)
  6. Joseph-Benoît Suvée — 24 connections (b. 1743)
  7. Henry Fuseli — 23 connections (b. 1741)
  8. Charles Willson Peale — 21 connections (b. 1741)
  9. Guillaume-Jacques Herreyns — 21 connections (b. 1743)
  10. King of Spain Charles IV — 20 connections (b. 1748)

1750s — 2924 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Jean-Baptiste Regnault — 54 connections (b. 1754)
  2. Pierre Joseph Redouté — 27 connections (b. 1759)
  3. Alexander Nasmyth — 21 connections (b. 1758)
  4. Antonio Canova — 20 connections (b. 1757)
  5. Queen consort of Louis XVI Marie Antoinette — 20 connections (b. 1755)
  6. King of France Louis XVI — 17 connections (b. 1754)
  7. King of France Louis XVIII — 17 connections (b. 1755)
  8. Heinrich III Füssli — 17 connections (b. 1755)
  9. Carle Vernet — 16 connections (b. 1758)
  10. Wilhelm Tischbein — 15 connections (b. 1751)

1760s — 2147 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Emperor of the French Napoleon I — 36 connections (b. 1769)
  2. Bertel Thorvaldsen — 30 connections (b. 1768)
  3. Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson — 30 connections (b. 1767)
  4. Jean Victor Bertin — 26 connections (b. 1767)
  5. Pietro Benvenuti — 25 connections (b. 1769)
  6. Guillaume Lethiere — 25 connections (b. 1760)
  7. Charles Percier — 24 connections (b. 1764)
  8. Jean-Baptiste Isabey — 22 connections (b. 1767)
  9. Thomas Lawrence — 19 connections (b. 1769)
  10. Franz Jakob Schwanthaler — 17 connections (b. 1760)

1770s — 4037 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Antoine-Jean Gros — 64 connections (b. 1771)
  2. Mathieu Ignace Van Brée — 33 connections (b. 1773)
  3. Jan Willem Pieneman — 28 connections (b. 1779)
  4. Louis Hersent — 24 connections (b. 1777)
  5. Pierre Guérin — 22 connections (b. 1774)
  6. Pieter Gerardus van Os — 20 connections (b. 1776)
  7. Vincenzo Camuccini — 18 connections (b. 1771)
  8. François Baron Gérard — 18 connections (b. 1770)
  9. Louise Marie Adelaide Eugènie d' Orléans — 15 connections (b. 1777)
  10. King of the French Louis Philippe — 15 connections (b. 1773)

1780s — 2561 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. François-Edouard Picot — 67 connections (b. 1786)
  2. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres — 65 connections (b. 1780)
  3. Wilhelm von Schadow — 48 connections (b. 1788)
  4. Horace Vernet — 39 connections (b. 1789)
  5. Kim Jeonghui — 31 connections (b. 1786)
  6. François-Joseph Navez — 30 connections (b. 1787)
  7. Andreas Schelfhout — 30 connections (b. 1787)
  8. Peter von Cornelius — 27 connections (b. 1783)
  9. C. W. Eckersberg — 23 connections (b. 1783)
  10. Alexandre Denis Abel de Pujol — 22 connections (b. 1785)

1790s — 2668 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Léon Cogniet — 128 connections (b. 1794)
  2. Paul Delaroche — 79 connections (b. 1797)
  3. Ary Scheffer — 33 connections (b. 1795)
  4. Ferdinand de the elder Braekeleer — 26 connections (b. 1792)
  5. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot — 26 connections (b. 1796)
  6. Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller — 23 connections (b. 1793)
  7. Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove — 22 connections (b. 1790)
  8. Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld — 20 connections (b. 1794)
  9. Eugène Delacroix — 20 connections (b. 1798)
  10. Rudolf Heinrich Füssli — 17 connections (b. 1791)

1800s — 31213 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Charles Gleyre — 65 connections (b. 1806)
  2. Carl Ferdinand Sohn — 40 connections (b. 1805)
  3. François Jouffroy — 32 connections (b. 1806)
  4. Gustaf Wappers — 28 connections (b. 1803)
  5. Ludwig von Schwanthaler — 24 connections (b. 1802)
  6. Hippolyte-Jean Flandrin — 23 connections (b. 1809)
  7. Eugène Isabey — 18 connections (b. 1803)
  8. Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran — 17 connections (b. 1802)
  9. Friedrich Salomon Füssli — 17 connections (b. 1802)
  10. Camille Joseph Etienne Roqueplan — 16 connections (b. 1800)

1810s — 4342 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Thomas Couture — 65 connections (b. 1815)
  2. Isidore Pils — 44 connections (b. 1813)
  3. Jean François Portaels — 42 connections (b. 1818)
  4. Jan Philip Koelman — 27 connections (b. 1818)
  5. Nicaise De Keyser — 25 connections (b. 1813)
  6. Pierre Jules Cavelier — 25 connections (b. 1814)
  7. Henri Lehmann — 24 connections (b. 1814)
  8. Albert Wolff — 20 connections (b. 1814)
  9. Arthur Georg von Ramberg — 19 connections (b. 1819)
  10. August von Kreling — 19 connections (b. 1819)

1820s — 4513 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Alexandre Cabanel — 130 connections (b. 1823)
  2. William-Adolphe Bouguereau — 111 connections (b. 1825)
  3. Karl Theodor von Piloty — 68 connections (b. 1826)
  4. Gustave Boulanger — 55 connections (b. 1824)
  5. Charles Verlat — 42 connections (b. 1824)
  6. Hans Fredrik Gude — 41 connections (b. 1825)
  7. Gustave Moreau — 41 connections (b. 1826)
  8. Domenico Morelli — 40 connections (b. 1823)
  9. Giuseppe Bertini — 40 connections (b. 1825)
  10. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes — 29 connections (b. 1824)

1830s — 4243 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Jean-Paul Laurens — 168 connections (b. 1838)
  2. Léon Bonnat — 148 connections (b. 1833)
  3. Jules Joseph Lefebvre — 132 connections (b. 1836)
  4. August Allebé — 124 connections (b. 1838)
  5. Christian Griepenkerl — 79 connections (b. 1839)
  6. Tony Robert-Fleury — 78 connections (b. 1837)
  7. Wilhelm von Diez — 69 connections (b. 1839)
  8. Carolus-Duran — 49 connections (b. 1838)
  9. Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière — 44 connections (b. 1831)
  10. James McNeill Whistler — 33 connections (b. 1834)

1840s — 4882 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Fernand Cormon — 123 connections (b. 1845)
  2. William Merritt Chase — 102 connections (b. 1849)
  3. Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant — 96 connections (b. 1845)
  4. Gabriel von Hackl — 54 connections (b. 1843)
  5. Ludwig von Löfftz — 54 connections (b. 1845)
  6. Auguste Rodin — 49 connections (b. 1840)
  7. Il'ya Repin — 43 connections (b. 1844)
  8. Luc Olivier Merson — 42 connections (b. 1846)
  9. Franz Rumpler — 38 connections (b. 1848)
  10. Karl I Sterrer — 30 connections (b. 1844)

1850s — 54352 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Nicolaas van der Waay — 94 connections (b. 1855)
  2. Alexander Henri Robert van Maasdijk — 60 connections (b. 1856)
  3. Carel Lodewijk I Dake — 57 connections (b. 1859)
  4. Edmund von Hellmer — 47 connections (b. 1850)
  5. Wilhelm von Rümann — 38 connections (b. 1850)
  6. Ferdinand Gustaaf Willem Oldewelt — 35 connections (b. 1857)
  7. Lovis Corinth — 34 connections (b. 1858)
  8. Raphaël Collin — 33 connections (b. 1850)
  9. Carl Marr — 31 connections (b. 1858)
  10. Adolf Hölzel — 27 connections (b. 1853)

1860s — 6684 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Emile-Antoine Bourdelle — 51 connections (b. 1861)
  2. Robert Henri — 48 connections (b. 1865)
  3. Rudolf Bacher — 40 connections (b. 1862)
  4. Franz von Stuck — 38 connections (b. 1863)
  5. Konstantin Korovin — 38 connections (b. 1861)
  6. Henri Matisse — 37 connections (b. 1869)
  7. Franz Cižek — 37 connections (b. 1865)
  8. Vassily Kandinsky — 36 connections (b. 1866)
  9. Lucien Simon — 33 connections (b. 1861)
  10. Frank Vincent DuMond — 32 connections (b. 1865)

1870s — 9561 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Josef Hoffmann — 38 connections (b. 1870)
  2. Paul Klee — 35 connections (b. 1879)
  3. Ferdinand Andri — 34 connections (b. 1871)
  4. Hendrik Jan Wolter — 33 connections (b. 1873)
  5. Johannes Josephus Aarts — 28 connections (b. 1871)
  6. Bertold Löffler — 27 connections (b. 1874)
  7. Henry Boot — 27 connections (b. 1877)
  8. Anton Hanak — 26 connections (b. 1875)
  9. Pierre Dupont — 25 connections (b. 1870)
  10. Maurice Denis — 25 connections (b. 1870)

1880s — 7778 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. André Lhote — 87 connections (b. 1885)
  2. Fernand Léger — 69 connections (b. 1881)
  3. Thomas Hart Benton — 60 connections (b. 1889)
  4. Albert Paris von Gütersloh — 59 connections (b. 1887)
  5. Hans Hofmann — 55 connections (b. 1880)
  6. Jan Bronner — 53 connections (b. 1881)
  7. Oskar Kokoschka — 40 connections (b. 1886)
  8. Le Corbusier — 40 connections (b. 1887)
  9. Josef Albers — 40 connections (b. 1888)
  10. Herman Mees — 40 connections (b. 1880)

1890s — 6942 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Herbert Boeckl — 76 connections (b. 1894)
  2. Ossip Zadkine — 49 connections (b. 1890)
  3. Robin Christian Andersen — 42 connections (b. 1890)
  4. Paul Citroen — 35 connections (b. 1896)
  5. Alexey Brodovitch — 25 connections (b. 1898)
  6. Man Ray — 24 connections (b. 1890)
  7. Reindert Juurt Draijer — 24 connections (b. 1899)
  8. László Moholy-Nagy — 22 connections (b. 1895)
  9. Anita Malfatti — 21 connections (b. 1896)
  10. Boris Ioganson — 19 connections (b. 1893)

1900s — 10759 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Fritz Wotruba — 50 connections (b. 1907)
  2. Alphons Röling — 42 connections (b. 1904)
  3. Stanley William Hayter — 37 connections (b. 1901)
  4. Ansel Adams — 19 connections (b. 1902)
  5. Louis I. Kahn — 19 connections (b. 1901)
  6. Marino Marini — 19 connections (b. 1901)
  7. Dorothy Dunn — 18 connections (b. 1903)
  8. Cândido Portinari — 16 connections (b. 1903)
  9. Otto Boudewijn de Kat — 16 connections (b. 1907)
  10. Aart Glansdorp — 16 connections (b. 1903)

1910s — 7376 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Otto Steinert — 35 connections (b. 1915)
  2. Vincent Pieter Semeyn Esser — 35 connections (b. 1914)
  3. Max Weiler — 29 connections (b. 1910)
  4. Rudolf Hausner — 24 connections (b. 1914)
  5. John Cage — 23 connections (b. 1912)
  6. Johnny Friedlaender — 16 connections (b. 1912)
  7. Ap Sok — 16 connections (b. 1917)
  8. Cor Hund — 16 connections (b. 1915)
  9. Maria Lassnig — 15 connections (b. 1919)
  10. Kees Bol — 15 connections (b. 1916)

1920s — 14498 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Joseph Beuys — 43 connections (b. 1921)
  2. Andy Warhol — 31 connections (b. 1928)
  3. Max Melcher — 30 connections (b. 1922)
  4. Arnulf Rainer — 26 connections (b. 1929)
  5. Anton Lehmden — 25 connections (b. 1929)
  6. Nico Molenkamp — 23 connections (b. 1920)
  7. Robert Rauschenberg — 19 connections (b. 1925)
  8. Anthony Caro — 19 connections (b. 1924)
  9. Richard Avedon — 17 connections (b. 1923)
  10. Geraldo de Barros — 17 connections (b. 1923)

1930s — 10912 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Oswald Oberhuber — 33 connections (b. 1931)
  2. Bruno Gironcoli — 32 connections (b. 1936)
  3. Adolf Frohner — 29 connections (b. 1934)
  4. Cape Dorset Print Workshop — 15 connections (b. 1930)
  5. Peter D. Eisenman — 14 connections (b. 1932)
  6. John Baldessari — 14 connections (b. 1931)
  7. Alfonso Hüppi — 13 connections (b. 1935)
  8. Nelson Leirner — 11 connections (b. 1932)
  9. Nam June Paik — 11 connections (b. 1932)
  10. Thomas Polacca — 10 connections (b. 1935)

1940s — 14823 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Peter Weibel — 20 connections (b. 1944)
  2. Christian Ludwig Attersee — 14 connections (b. 1940)
  3. Jan Dibbets — 10 connections (b. 1941)
  4. Eva Hesse — 10 connections (b. 1940)
  5. José Resende — 9 connections (b. 1945)
  6. Grzegorz Kowalski — 9 connections (b. 1942)
  7. Wout Muller — 9 connections (b. 1948)
  8. Will Alsop — 8 connections (b. 1947)
  9. Tony Conrad — 8 connections (b. 1940)
  10. Carlos Fajardo — 8 connections (b. 1941)

1950s — 10792 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Gunter Damisch — 26 connections (b. 1958)
  2. Xenia Hausner — 26 connections (b. 1951)
  3. Ernst Caramelle — 22 connections (b. 1952)
  4. Heimo Zobernig — 14 connections (b. 1958)
  5. Hubert Schmalix — 13 connections (b. 1952)
  6. Peter Kogler — 12 connections (b. 1959)
  7. Erwin Olaf — 11 connections (b. 1959)
  8. Brigitte Kowanz — 11 connections (b. 1957)
  9. I. M. Pei & Partners — 10 connections (b. 1955)
  10. Erwin Wurm — 9 connections (b. 1954)

1960s — 7358 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Antonio Beecroft — 11 connections (b. 1965)
  2. Eva Schlegel — 11 connections (b. 1960)
  3. Martin Schnur — 11 connections (b. 1964)
  4. Rafael Ortega — 9 connections (b. 1965)
  5. Jason Rhoades — 8 connections (b. 1965)
  6. Art & Language — 7 connections (b. 1968)
  7. Valérie Szeemann — 7 connections (b. 1964)
  8. Adi Rosenblum — 6 connections (b. 1962)
  9. Paulo Monteiro — 6 connections (b. 1961)
  10. Carlito Carvalhosa — 6 connections (b. 1961)

1970s — 3259 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Una Szeemann — 7 connections (b. 1975)
  2. Esther Dieltjes — 7 connections (b. 1978)
  3. Annette Kelm — 6 connections (b. 1975)
  4. Anthony Davis — 5 connections (b. 1970)
  5. Christoph Buchegger — 5 connections (b. 1977)
  6. Wendelin Pressl — 5 connections (b. 1971)
  7. Hellen Abma — 5 connections (b. 1975)
  8. Sven Erik Klein — 5 connections (b. 1974)
  9. Johanna Diehl — 5 connections (b. 1977)
  10. Flora Watzal — 4 connections (b. 1975)

1980s — 740 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. Pei Cobb Freed & Partners — 5 connections (b. 1989)
  2. Brigitte Kovacs — 4 connections (b. 1980)
  3. Centerbrook Architects — 3 connections (b. 1985)
  4. Kay Walkowiak — 3 connections (b. 1980)
  5. Bianca Maria Regl — 3 connections (b. 1980)
  6. Alfons Pressnitz — 3 connections (b. 1982)
  7. Robert Freund — 3 connections (b. 1981)
  8. Erika Hock — 3 connections (b. 1981)
  9. Ellen Dederichs — 3 connections (b. 1982)
  10. Peter Feiler — 3 connections (b. 1981)

1990s — 255 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. AmerINDIAN Architecture — 3 connections (b. 1992)
  2. SANAA — 3 connections (b. 1998)
  3. Soeters van Eldonk Architecten — 2 connections (b. 1997)
  4. Ben Harpring — 2 connections (b. 1995)
  5. LDA Architects — 1 connections (b. 1992)
  6. Cloud 9 — 1 connections (b. 1995)
  7. Ackermann Architekt — 1 connections (b. 1999)
  8. Jung Senarak — 1 connections (b. 1992)
  9. Shanatya Tahpor — 1 connections (b. 1996)
  10. Yerrinda Kaewsuwan — 1 connections (b. 1993)

2000s — 107 artists born this decade

Top by total Getty connections:

  1. CASE — 4 connections (b. 2000)
  2. Nancy Mah Design — 1 connections (b. 2000)