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Alexander Calder

1898 - 1976

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Alexander "Sandy" Calder (; July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Calder is the 25th most popular sculptor (down from 24th in 2019), the 798th most popular biography from United States (down from 724th in 2019) and the most popular American Sculptor.

Alexander Calder is most famous for his mobiles, which are sculptures that hang from the ceiling and move with the air currents.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Alexander Calder ranks 25 out of 258. Before him are Jacopo Sansovino, Nicola Pisano, Marie Tussaud, Henry Moore, Luca della Robbia, and Andrea Pisano. After him are Alessandro Algardi, Giovanni Pisano, Alexander Archipenko, Rosa Bonheur, Claus Sluter, and Antoine Bourdelle.

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Among people born in 1898, Alexander Calder ranks 31. Before him are Tamara de Lempicka, Karl Hermann Frank, Rudolf Dassler, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Rodion Malinovsky, and Henry Moore. After him are Vicente Aleixandre, René Clair, Georges Dumézil, Curzio Malaparte, Willy Messerschmitt, and Joseph Murphy. Among people deceased in 1976, Alexander Calder ranks 29. Before him are Lars Onsager, Joachim Peiper, Ulrike Meinhof, J. Paul Getty, Gustav Heinemann, and Raymond Queneau. After him are Anneliese Michel, Zhu De, Rudolf Bultmann, Choe Yong-gon, Juscelino Kubitschek, and Émile Benveniste.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alexander Calder ranks 798 out of 20,380. Before him are David Lee (1931), James Woods (1947), Theodore Dreiser (1871), Benedict Arnold (1741), Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), and Paul Cohen (1934). After him are Sixto Rodriguez (1942), Nelson Rockefeller (1908), Terry Gilliam (1940), Larry Hagman (1931), Nancy Sinatra (1940), and Steven Weinberg (1933).

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Among SCULPTORS In United States

Among sculptors born in United States, Alexander Calder ranks 1. After him are Isamu Noguchi (1904), Robert Smithson (1938), Dan Flavin (1933), Robert Morris (1931), Anna Coleman Ladd (1878), Dennis Oppenheim (1938), Walter De Maria (1935), Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875), Duane Hanson (1925), Jacob Epstein (1880), and Audrey Munson (1891).

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