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Kateryna Bilokur

1900 - 1961

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Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur (Ukrainian: Катерина Василівна Білокур; December 7 [O.S. November 24] 1900 – 9 June 1961) was a Ukrainian folk artist, painter and poet born in the Poltava Governorate. After an unpromising start, her works became known in the late 1930s and 1940s for their interest in nature. Her paintings have become famous for depictions of peasant life among Ukrainian women,. Above all it was Bilokur's flowers done in oil on canvas which brought her general recognition, with critics noting, "[s]he sees the souls of flowers." Bilokur was named People's Artist of Ukraine in 1951. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kateryna Bilokur is the 1,236th most popular painter (up from 1,415th in 2019), the 485th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 559th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Ukrainian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Kateryna Bilokur ranks 1,236 out of 2,023Before her are Azim Azimzade, Lucien Simon, Alfred Stevens, Franz Roubaud, Eirene, and Hans Bol. After her are Carl Blechen, Georges Mathieu, Thomas Hill, Aleksander Gierymski, Wu Zhen, and Wojciech Gerson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Kateryna Bilokur ranks 168Before her are Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Hendrik van Gent, Oskar Fischinger, Pink Anderson, Pavel Kurochkin, and Ivan Fedyuninsky. After her are Walther Kadow, Karl Kaufmann, Paul Kletzki, Roberto Arlt, Hélène Prévost, and Serge Poliakoff. Among people deceased in 1961, Kateryna Bilokur ranks 90Before her are York Bowen, Arnold Gesell, Constantin Constantinescu-Claps, Camille Guérin, Luke Voyno-Yasenetsky, and Carlos Luz. After her are Chester Barnard, Hari Singh, Chico Marx, Maurice Tourneur, Louis Rwagasore, and Max Weber.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Kateryna Bilokur ranks 485 out of 1,365Before her are Igor Moiseyev (1906), Mikhail Tereshchenko (1886), Ivan Puluj (1845), Kazimierz Bartel (1882), Borys Romanchenko (1926), and Franz Roubaud (1856). After her are Maksym Rylsky (1895), Georgy Shonin (1935), Olena Pchilka (1849), Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa (1705), Hilarion of Kiev (990), and Ignacy Daszyński (1866).

Among PAINTERS In Ukraine

Among painters born in Ukraine, Kateryna Bilokur ranks 19Before her are Dmitry Levitzky (1735), Nikolai Yaroshenko (1846), Vladimir Borovikovsky (1757), Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874), Mykola Pymonenko (1862), and Franz Roubaud (1856). After her are Ivan Marchuk (1936), Boris Yefimov (1900), Ilya Kabakov (1933), Mykhailo Boychuk (1882), Vladimir Baranov-Rossine (1888), and Alexander Bogomazov (1880).