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Dora Maar

1907 - 1997

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Henriette Theodora Markovitch (22 November 1907 – 16 July 1997), known as Dora Maar, was a French photographer and painter. Maar was both a pioneering Surrealist artist and an antifascist activist. Maar was depicted in a number of Picasso's paintings, including his Portrait of Dora Maar and Dora Maar au Chat. However, Maar said of the works: "All his portraits of me are lies. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dora Maar is the 7th most popular photographer (up from 8th in 2019), the 869th most popular biography from France (down from 849th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Photographer.

Dora Maar was a surrealist painter who is most famous for her painting of Pablo Picasso.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Dora Maar ranks 7 out of 148. Before her are Nadar, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Heinrich Hoffmann, Eadweard Muybridge, Alberto Korda, and Helmut Newton. After her are Alexander Rodchenko, Vivian Maier, Robert Doisneau, Oliviero Toscani, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Felice Beato.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Dora Maar ranks 41. Before her are Giovanna of Italy, Daphne du Maurier, Jacques Tati, Maurice Blanchot, Erich Mielke, and Konstantinos Karamanlis. After her are Hans Selye, Lucien Laurent, Roman Shukhevych, Solomon Asch, Otto Ohlendorf, and Sisavang Vatthana. Among people deceased in 1997, Dora Maar ranks 38. Before her are Alfred Hershey, Allen Ginsberg, Aldo Rossi, Helenio Herrera, John Eccles, and Chaim Herzog. After her are Chien-Shiung Wu, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Dodi Fayed, Zoltán Czibor, Otto Ernst Remer, and Colonel Tom Parker.

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In France

Among people born in France, Dora Maar ranks 869 out of 6,770. Before her are Theobald I of Navarre (1201), Liliane Bettencourt (1922), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Maurice René Fréchet (1878), Antoine Meillet (1866), and Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837). After her are Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1279), Pierre Janssen (1824), Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763), Joscelin I, Count of Edessa (1072), Charles Hermite (1822), and Renée of France (1510).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In France

Among photographers born in France, Dora Maar ranks 3. Before her are Nadar (1820), and Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908). After her are Robert Doisneau (1912), Elliott Erwitt (1928), Étienne Carjat (1828), Sophie Calle (1953), Claude Cahun (1894), Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894), André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819), Hippolyte Bayard (1801), and Patrick Demarchelier (1943).

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