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Mikoláš Aleš

1852 - 1913

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Mikoláš Aleš (18 November 1852 – 10 July 1913) was a Czech painter. Aleš is estimated to have had over 5,000 published pictures; he painted for everything from magazines to playing cards to textbooks. His paintings were not publicized too widely outside Bohemia, but many of them are still available, and he is regarded as one of the Czech Republic's greatest artists. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikoláš Aleš is the 1,163rd most popular painter (up from 1,276th in 2019), the 387th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 417th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Czech Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Mikoláš Aleš ranks 1,163 out of 2,023Before him are Niccolò Antonio Colantonio, Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry, Boris Vallejo, N. C. Wyeth, Caspar Netscher, and Uroš Predić. After him are Giuseppe Amisani, Lucas van Valckenborch, Barent Fabritius, Emile Claus, Mykola Pymonenko, and Zoran Mušič.

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Among people born in 1852, Mikoláš Aleš ranks 67Before him are Francisco Moreno, Carl Chun, Charles Villiers Stanford, Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Kodama Gentarō, and Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz. After him are George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg, Princess Marie of Battenberg, Gertrude Käsebier, Prince Arnulf of Bavaria, Leon Wyczółkowski, and Émile Fayolle. Among people deceased in 1913, Mikoláš Aleš ranks 50Before him are Aurel Vlaicu, Karl Wittgenstein, Anthimus VII of Constantinople, Marie Popelin, Hjalmar Johansen, and Paul Friedrich August Ascherson. After him are Frederick Holman, Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani, Camille Jenatzy, Kâmil Pasha, and E. Pauline Johnson.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Mikoláš Aleš ranks 387 out of 1,200Before him are Joseph von Sonnenfels (1732), Viktor Dyk (1877), Jana Brejchová (1940), Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz (1686), Eduard Nápravník (1839), and Sigfried Giedion (1888). After him are Karel Píč (1920), Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1862), Bretislav III (1200), Maria Restituta Kafka (1894), Soběslav II, Duke of Bohemia (1128), and Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821).

Among PAINTERS In Czechia

Among painters born in Czechia, Mikoláš Aleš ranks 11Before him are Anna Chromý (1940), Emil Orlík (1870), Georg Flegel (1566), Toyen (1902), Gabriel von Max (1840), and Zdeněk Burian (1905). After him are Petr Brandl (1668), Josef Mánes (1820), Joseph von Führich (1800), Bohumil Kubišta (1884), Václav Brožík (1851), and Vladimír Vašíček (1919).