Joseph Beuys

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Joseph Beuys - German artist, teacher, and theorist of art (1921–1986). This person is the 9714^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 997^th most popular person in German Wikipedia. Article “Joseph Beuys” in German Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 178 references and 42 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 3456^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 829^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 997^th most popular in people in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9714^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 7026^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Joseph Beuys” was edited by 3 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Joseph Beuys”, its content was written by 639 registered users of German Wikipedia (829^th place) and edited by 2041 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Joseph Beuys is on the 997^th place in local ranking of people in German Wikipedia and on the 9714^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 1231 times in German Wikipedia (9453^rd place) and cited 4569 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #123 in November 2006
• Global: #2794 in January 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #47 in May 2021
• Global: #4423 in May 2021

There are 40 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Joseph Beuys		100
2	English (en) Joseph Beuys		81.835
3	Hebrew (he) יוזף בויס		57.9314
4	French (fr) Joseph Beuys		53.0894
5	Dutch (nl) Joseph Beuys		51.0856
6	Hungarian (hu) Joseph Beuys		44.5166
7	Greek (el) Γιόζεφ Μπόις		40.9209
8	Slovenian (sl) Joseph Beuys		39.2166
9	Armenian (hy) Յոզեֆ Բոյս		38.4396
10	Ukrainian (uk) Йозеф Бойс		35.4126

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Joseph Beuys		4 051 255
2	English (en) Joseph Beuys		2 663 684
3	Spanish (es) Joseph Beuys		613 478
4	French (fr) Joseph Beuys		588 427
5	Italian (it) Joseph Beuys		416 547
6	Russian (ru) Бойс, Йозеф		359 555
7	Japanese (ja) ヨーゼフ・ボイス		309 894
8	Dutch (nl) Joseph Beuys		275 594
9	Portuguese (pt) Joseph Beuys		222 014
10	Polish (pl) Joseph Beuys		210 382

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Joseph Beuys		10 097
2	English (en) Joseph Beuys		6 872
3	French (fr) Joseph Beuys		1 632
4	Italian (it) Joseph Beuys		1 407
5	Japanese (ja) ヨーゼフ・ボイス		1 181
6	Russian (ru) Бойс, Йозеф		1 120
7	Spanish (es) Joseph Beuys		969
8	Simple English (simple) Joseph Beuys		611
9	Dutch (nl) Joseph Beuys		562
10	Polish (pl) Joseph Beuys		511

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Joseph Beuys		639
2	English (en) Joseph Beuys		359
3	French (fr) Joseph Beuys		149
4	Italian (it) Joseph Beuys		103
5	Dutch (nl) Joseph Beuys		99
6	Russian (ru) Бойс, Йозеф		63
7	Polish (pl) Joseph Beuys		57
8	Spanish (es) Joseph Beuys		52
9	Norwegian (no) Joseph Beuys		51
10	Hungarian (hu) Joseph Beuys		39

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Joseph Beuys		3
2	Turkish (tr) Joseph Beuys		2
3	Arabic (ar) يوزيف بويس		1
4	Esperanto (eo) Joseph Beuys		1
5	French (fr) Joseph Beuys		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Йозеф Бойс		1
7	Chinese (zh) 约瑟夫·博伊斯		1
8	Belarusian (be) Іозеф Бойс		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Йозеф Бойс		0
10	Catalan (ca) Joseph Beuys		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information