# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-dahn
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:24:21.071Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-dahn"
name: "Walter Dahn"
slug: "walter-dahn"
description: "Walter Dahn was a German painter, photographer, and sound artist. He was born in Tönisvorst, North Rhine-Westphalia. He was one of the most important representatives of the Neue Wilde of the 1980s. Dahn taught painting at the Braunschweig University of Art."
tagline: "German painter (1954–2024)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1954-10-08"
deathDate: "2024-11-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.89
  momentum:             13.71428571428572
  historical:           7.474838666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9477447/"
    handle:    "nm9477447"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/209627"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Валтер Дан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Dahn"
    title: "Walter Dahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Dahn"
    title: "Walter Dahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Dahn"
    title: "Walter Dahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Dahn"
    title: "Walter Dahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Dahn"
    title: "Walter Dahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Dahn"
    title: "Walter Dahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/386a4e22-9c85-45e2-92ab-b95fa0f35cd5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1740593"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump