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Emil Filla

1882 - 1953

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Emil Filla (4 April 1882 – 7 October 1953) was a Czech painter. He was a leader of the avant-garde in Prague between World War I and World War II and was an early Cubist painter. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emil Filla is the 1,805th most popular painter (down from 1,748th in 2019), the 663rd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 604th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Czech Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Emil Filla ranks 1,805 out of 2,023. Before him are Theodore Robinson, Albín Brunovský, Helen Allingham, Wang Shimin, Lawrence Weiner, and L. S. Lowry. After him are Albert Paris Gütersloh, Jean Broc, Ivan Argunov, Vija Celmins, Konstantin Yuon, and Louis Meijer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Emil Filla ranks 231. Before him are Harry Porter, Adrianus de Jong, Hernando Siles Reyes, Juan Luque de Serrallonga, Pierre Allemane, and Tadeusz Banachiewicz. After him are Robert Kerr, Daniel Frank, Wyndham Lewis, Ödön Bodor, André Rischmann, and Ștefania Mărăcineanu. Among people deceased in 1953, Emil Filla ranks 153. Before him are Sven Gustaf Wingqvist, Dimitri Arakishvili, Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, Ekvtime Takaishvili, Oliver Campbell, and Annie Kenney. After him are August Emil Fieldorf, Nikolai Golovanov, Chet Miller, Dooley Wilson, John Marin, and Jonathan M. Wainwright.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Emil Filla ranks 663 out of 1,200. Before him are Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861), Emil Holub (1847), Otakar Vindyš (1889), Jan Kotěra (1871), Václav Mottl (1914), and Václav Hovorka (1931). After him are Petr Bezruč (1867), Emil František Burian (1904), Karolina Světlá (1830), Adolf Born (1930), Patrik Berger (1973), and Oldřich Lajsek (1925).

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Among PAINTERS In Czechia

Among painters born in Czechia, Emil Filla ranks 21. Before him are Bohumil Kubišta (1884), Václav Brožík (1851), Vladimír Vašíček (1919), Karel Škréta (1610), Max Švabinský (1873), and Alfred Roller (1864). After him are Oldřich Lajsek (1925), Jaroslav Čermák (1830), Ferdinand Bauer (1760), Antonín Slavíček (1870), and Zdenka Braunerová (1858).

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