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Cuno Amiet

1868 - 1961

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Cuno Amiet (28 March 1868 – 6 July 1961) was a Swiss painter, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor. As the first Swiss painter to give precedence to colour in composition, he was a pioneer of modern art in Switzerland. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cuno Amiet is the 1,322nd most popular painter (down from 1,196th in 2019), the 363rd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 315th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Swiss Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Cuno Amiet ranks 1,322 out of 2,023. Before him are Joseph Cornell, Jan van Bijlert, Leon Wyczółkowski, Ambrosius Benson, Wojciech Kossak, and Hans Erni. After him are Dai Jin, Robert Motherwell, Jankel Adler, Olga Wisinger-Florian, Kanō Tan'yū, and Rafael Arnaiz Barón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Cuno Amiet ranks 129. Before him are Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Alois Musil, Camille Jenatzy, Arthur Gore, Delfim Moreira, and Emilie Snethlage. After him are Georges Lacombe, Gilbert Walker, Ozaki Kōyō, Filipp Makharadze, Mikhail Pokrovsky, and Emil Racoviță. Among people deceased in 1961, Cuno Amiet ranks 97. Before him are Chester Barnard, Hari Singh, Chico Marx, Maurice Tourneur, Louis Rwagasore, and Max Weber. After him are Andrzej Munk, H.D., Walter Bedell Smith, Harriet Bosse, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Alexander Goldenweiser.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Cuno Amiet ranks 363 out of 1,015. Before him are Henri Colpi (1921), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), Albert Heim (1849), Philippe Jaccottet (1925), Theodore Bibliander (1500), and Hans Erni (1909). After him are Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice (1972), Kate Burton (1957), Albert Sechehaye (1870), Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (1484), Paul Grüninger (1891), and Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein (1947).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Cuno Amiet ranks 27. Before him are Giovanni Giacometti (1868), Adolf Wölfli (1864), Urs Graf (1485), Aloïse Corbaz (1886), Salomon Gessner (1730), and Hans Erni (1909). After him are Antonio Ciseri (1821), Karl Bodmer (1809), Gottfried Honegger (1917), Pier Francesco Mola (1612), Pipilotti Rist (1962), and Elizabeth Thompson (1846).

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