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Eugène Atget

1857 - 1927

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Eugène Atget (French: [adʒɛ]; 12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French flâneur and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. Most of his photographs were first published by Berenice Abbott after his death. Though he sold his work to artists and craftspeople, and became an inspiration for the surrealists, he did not live to see the wide acclaim his work would eventually receive. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eugène Atget is the 495th most popular painter (down from 488th in 2019), the 1,506th most popular biography from France (down from 1,496th in 2019) and the 98th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Eugène Atget ranks 495 out of 2,023. Before him are Théodore Chassériau, Maria Prymachenko, Matthäus Merian, Grant Wood, Guo Xi, and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio. After him are Arman, Francisco Pacheco, Parrhasius, Leonor Fini, Carlo Dolci, and John La Farge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Eugène Atget ranks 44. Before him are Christian Michelsen, 12th Dalai Lama, Otto von Below, Max Klinger, Wilhelm Johannsen, and Georges Gilles de la Tourette. After him are Williamina Fleming, Vladimir Bekhterev, Mikhail Alekseyev, Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Theodor Escherich, and Theodor Kittelsen. Among people deceased in 1927, Eugène Atget ranks 29. Before him are Wilhelm Johannsen, Enrique Simonet, Li Dazhao, Reginald Dyer, Max Hoffmann, and Adolph Joffe. After him are Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Saad Zaghloul, Vladimir Bekhterev, Jānis Čakste, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, and Shote Galica.

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In France

Among people born in France, Eugène Atget ranks 1,506 out of 6,770. Before him are Édith Cresson (1934), Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (1187), Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), Auguste Charlois (1864), Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), and Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857). After him are Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697), Philippe de Gaulle (1921), Julien Duvivier (1896), Marcel Petiot (1897), Victor Noir (1848), and Henri Cartan (1904).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Eugène Atget ranks 98. Before him are François-Édouard Picot (1786), Jules Chéret (1836), Louis-Michel van Loo (1707), Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774), Ernest Meissonier (1815), and Séraphine Louis (1864). After him are Arman (1928), Fernand Cormon (1845), Jean Clouet (1480), Nicolas de Largillière (1656), André Lhote (1885), and Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754).

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