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Louise Bourgeois

1911 - 2010

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Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French: [lwiz buʁʒwa] ; 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. These themes connect to events from her childhood which she considered to be a therapeutic process. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louise Bourgeois is the 13th most popular sculptor (up from 38th in 2019), the 423rd most popular biography from France (up from 1,013th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Sculptor.

Louise Bourgeois is most famous for her sculptures and drawings, which often explore themes of sexuality, femininity, and the body.

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Among sculptors, Louise Bourgeois ranks 13 out of 258. Before her are Lorenzo Ghiberti, Antonio Canova, Lysippos, Alberto Giacometti, Constantin Brâncuși, and Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. After her are Giambologna, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Myron, Scopas, Józef Gosławski, and Jacopo Sansovino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Louise Bourgeois ranks 17. Before her are Todor Zhivkov, Czesław Miłosz, Nino Rota, William Golding, Mikhail Botvinnik, and Võ Nguyên Giáp. After her are Milovan Đilas, William Howard Stein, Robert Taylor, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, William Stuart-Houston, and Melvin Calvin. Among people deceased in 2010, Louise Bourgeois ranks 11. Before her are J. D. Salinger, Lech Kaczyński, Tony Curtis, Ronnie James Dio, James Black, and Gloria Stuart. After her are Eddie Fisher, Benoit Mandelbrot, Georges Charpak, Maurice Allais, Éric Rohmer, and Bobby Farrell.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louise Bourgeois ranks 423 out of 6,770. Before her are Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Hortense de Beauharnais (1783), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Alfred Kastler (1902), Jérôme Bonaparte (1784), and Jean Baudrillard (1929). After her are Pierre Laval (1883), Francis Poulenc (1899), Fernandel (1903), Girard Desargues (1591), André Derain (1880), and Jeanne Moreau (1928).

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Among SCULPTORS In France

Among sculptors born in France, Louise Bourgeois ranks 4. Before her are Auguste Rodin (1840), Camille Claudel (1864), and Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834). After her are Giambologna (1529), Marie Tussaud (1761), Rosa Bonheur (1822), Antoine Bourdelle (1861), Paul Landowski (1875), Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741), François Rude (1784), and Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716).

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