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Louis Marcoussis

1878 - 1941

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Louis Marcoussis (born Ludwik Kazimierz Wladyslaw Markus or Ludwig Casimir Ladislas Markus; 1878 or 1883 – October 22, 1941) was a Polish-French avant-garde painter active primarily in Paris. Markus studied law in Warsaw before attending the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, and later moved to Paris to study under Jules Lefebvre at the Académie Julian. His work was first featured in a major exhibition at the Salon d'Automne in 1905. In Paris, he became acquainted with prominent artists of the School of Paris and writers in the cafes of Montmartre and Montparnasse. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Marcoussis is the 1,022nd most popular painter (up from 1,200th in 2019), the 593rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 685th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Polish Painter.

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Among painters, Louis Marcoussis ranks 1,022 out of 2,023. Before him are Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz, Christoph Amberger, Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze, Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, Otto Freundlich, and László Mednyánszky. After him are Xu Beihong, Hans Thoma, Dirck Hals, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Stradanus, and Francesc Ribalta.

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Among people born in 1878, Louis Marcoussis ranks 109. Before him are Egon Friedell, Ernst Alexanderson, Kurt Goldstein, Theodoros Pangalos, Jack Johnson, and Otto Freundlich. After him are Katie Johnson, Ulrich Graf, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Raymond Smith Dugan, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and Pat McDonald. Among people deceased in 1941, Louis Marcoussis ranks 93. Before him are Wilhelm Kienzl, Simon Dubnow, Marcel Prévost, Anandyn Amar, Parvin E'tesami, and Gutzon Borglum. After him are Jelly Roll Morton, Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Mustafa Shokay, Kurt Hensel, Peder Mørk Mønsted, and Fritz-Julius Lemp.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Louis Marcoussis ranks 593 out of 1,694. Before him are Ignacy Krasicki (1735), Władysław Bartoszewski (1922), Caspar Schwenckfeld (1490), Klaus Roth (1925), Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann (1818), and Otto Freundlich (1878). After him are Jan Tomaszewski (1948), Michał Kazimierz Ogiński (1729), Michał Rola-Żymierski (1890), Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1788), Józef Maria Bocheński (1902), and Peter Berling (1934).

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Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Louis Marcoussis ranks 16. Before him are Hans Bellmer (1902), Olga Boznańska (1865), Aleksander Orłowski (1777), Józef Brandt (1841), Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1819), and Otto Freundlich (1878). After him are Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745), Władysław Podkowiński (1866), Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852), Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk (1884), Aleksander Gierymski (1850), and Wojciech Gerson (1831).

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