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Mark Rothko

1903 - 1970

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Mark Rothko ( ROTH-koh; Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970) was an American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970. Although Rothko did not personally subscribe to any one school, he is associated with the American abstract expressionism movement of modern art. Born to a Jewish family in Daugavpils, Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire, Rothko emigrated with his parents and siblings to the United States, arriving at Ellis Island in late 1913 and originally settling in Portland, Oregon. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mark Rothko is the 136th most popular painter (down from 97th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Painter.

Mark Rothko is most famous for his paintings that are made up of large, flat areas of color.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Mark Rothko ranks 136 out of 2,023. Before him are Hilma af Klint, Jean Dubuffet, Arnold Böcklin, Zeuxis, André Derain, and Jan Brueghel the Elder. After him are Charles Le Brun, Mary Cassatt, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Edward Hopper, Émile Bernard, and Lili Elbe.

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Among people born in 1903, Mark Rothko ranks 14. Before him are George Beadle, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, C. F. Powell, Adolf Butenandt, Habib Bourguiba, and Fernandel. After him are Jan Tinbergen, Andrey Kolmogorov, Galeazzo Ciano, Vladimir Horowitz, Yasujirō Ozu, and Marguerite Yourcenar. Among people deceased in 1970, Mark Rothko ranks 20. Before him are Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Édouard Daladier, Otto Heinrich Warburg, François Mauriac, Paul Celan, and Peter II of Yugoslavia. After him are C. V. Raman, Semyon Timoshenko, Rudolf Carnap, Heinrich Brüning, Alfred Newman, and Jochen Rindt.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Mark Rothko ranks 4 out of 323. Before him are Sergei Eisenstein (1898), Wilhelm Ostwald (1853), and Mikhail Tal (1936). After him are Isaiah Berlin (1909), Mariss Jansons (1943), Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948), Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (1937), Kārlis Ulmanis (1877), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717), and Aron Nimzowitsch (1886).

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Among PAINTERS In Latvia

Among painters born in Latvia, Mark Rothko ranks 1. After him are Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824), Vilhelms Purvītis (1872), Janis Rozentāls (1866), and Vija Celmins (1938).

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