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Kārlis Zāle

1888 - 1942

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Kārlis Zāle (28 October 1888 – 19 February 1942) was a Latvian sculptor. Zāle was born in Mažeikiai, but grew up in Liepāja. After training in Russia at the Kazan Art School under Alexander Matveyev and in Germany, he returned to Riga in 1923, where he both worked in sculpture and taught it. He is best known for his monumental sculptures, including the massive main gates at Brothers' Cemetery and the Freedom Monument in Riga. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kārlis Zāle is the 198th most popular sculptor (up from 209th in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 148th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Sculptor.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Kārlis Zāle ranks 198 out of 258. Before him are Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Reinhold Begas, Louise Nevelson, Duane Hanson, W. J. Coffee, and Ron Mueck. After him are Jacob Epstein, Fritz Wotruba, Mona Hatoum, Audrey Munson, Andy Goldsworthy, and Barry Flanagan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Kārlis Zāle ranks 189. Before him are Tom Phillips, Kiichiro Higuchi, Paul Niggli, Fritz Schäffer, Walther von Wartburg, and Vasyl Barvinsky. After him are Albert Kluyver, Martin Benka, Dan Andersson, Charles Winslow, Dora Gabe, and Maxwell Anderson. Among people deceased in 1942, Kārlis Zāle ranks 193. Before him are Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Racho Petrov, Yevgeny Petrov, Harald Tammer, Jean Gilbert, and Louis Borno. After him are Cecilia Beaux, Alfred Asikainen, Joaquín Sánchez de Toca, Pranas Dovydaitis, Jüri Jaakson, and Gertrud Adelborg.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Kārlis Zāle ranks 142 out of 328. Before him are Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873), Grigory Gershuni (1870), Stanisław Narutowicz (1862), Napoleon Cybulski (1854), Meir Vilner (1918), and Jonas Kazlauskas (1954). After him are Władysław Komar (1940), Isaak Kikoin (1908), Osip Senkovsky (1800), Irena Degutienė (1949), Bohdan Paczyński (1940), and Ben Shahn (1898).

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Among SCULPTORS In Lithuania

Among sculptors born in Lithuania, Kārlis Zāle ranks 1. After him are Mark Antokolsky (1843).

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