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Nicolas de Staël

1914 - 1955

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Nicolas de Staël (French: [ni.kɔ.la də stal]; January 5, 1914 – March 16, 1955) was a French painter of Russian origin known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolas de Staël is the 667th most popular painter (down from 622nd in 2019), the 599th most popular biography from Russia (down from 565th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Russian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Nicolas de Staël ranks 667 out of 2,023. Before him are Pierre Soulages, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Jan Toorop, Leonid Pasternak, Jannis Kounellis, and Cindy Sherman. After him are Jack Butler Yeats, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Achille Devéria, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Mikhail Nesterov, and Bartolomeo Manfredi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Nicolas de Staël ranks 91. Before him are Edmund Conen, Achille Compagnoni, David Goodall, Lina Bo Bardi, Adriaan Blaauw, and Lazar Koliševski. After him are Pietro Germi, John Kerr, Edward T. Hall, Ferenc Fricsay, Archduchess Adelheid of Austria, and Jean Tatlock. Among people deceased in 1955, Nicolas de Staël ranks 54. Before him are Alfréd Hajós, Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Olga Khokhlova, Pierre Levegh, Manuel Ávila Camacho, and Henri Delaunay. After him are Erich Brandenberger, Edward Kasner, Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, Cy Young, Kim Seong-su, and Ivan Šubašić.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nicolas de Staël ranks 599 out of 3,761. Before him are Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925), Denis Fonvizin (1745), Taihō Kōki (1940), Maria Miloslavskaya (1624), Werner Ostendorff (1903), and Sergei Novikov (1938). After him are Marie of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1579), Yuri II of Vladimir (1188), Yuri Lotman (1922), Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (1865), Mikhail Nesterov (1862), and Igor Netto (1930).

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Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Nicolas de Staël ranks 24. Before him are Vasily Surikov (1848), Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806), Martiros Saryan (1880), Boris Kustodiev (1878), Nikolai Ge (1831), and Konstantin Makovsky (1839). After him are Mikhail Nesterov (1862), Jean Béraud (1849), Viktor Hartmann (1834), Alexei Savrasov (1830), Konstantin Korovin (1861), and Vasily Polenov (1844).

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