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Nikifor

1895 - 1968

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Nikifor (21 May 1895, Krynica, Austria-Hungary – 10 October 1968, Folusz, Poland), also known as Nikifor Krynicki, born as Epifaniy Drovnyak (Epifaniusz Drowniak)1, was a Lemko naïve painter. Nikifor painted over 40,000 pictures – on sheets of paper, pages of notebooks, cigarette cartons, and even on scraps of paper glued together. The topics of his art include self-portraits and panoramas of Krynica, with its spas and Orthodox and Catholic churches. Underestimated for most of his life, in his late days he became famous as a naïve painter. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikifor is the 1,503rd most popular painter (down from 1,466th in 2019), the 849th most popular biography from Poland (down from 810th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Polish Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Nikifor ranks 1,503 out of 2,023. Before him are Adolphe Yvon, Heinrich Campendonk, Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Albert Namatjira, Kristjan Raud, and Agnes Block. After him are Frank Auerbach, Bart van der Leck, Karl Hofer, Paolo Salvati, Bartolomeo della Gatta, and Thomas Girtin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Nikifor ranks 185. Before him are Christian Herter, Gabriel Chevallier, André Chéron, Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev, Erich Abraham, and Liane Haid. After him are Conchita Supervía, Max Valier, Harold Hotelling, Valentin Loos, Erich Buschenhagen, and Josef Uridil. Among people deceased in 1968, Nikifor ranks 142. Before him are Leo Huberman, Harold D. Babcock, Jón Leifs, Vasyl Makukh, Maurice Verdonck, and Joseph Pholien. After him are Johann Horvath, Suraphol Sombatcharoen, Bruno Chizzo, Norman Brookes, Leo Sexton, and Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Nikifor ranks 849 out of 1,694. Before him are Zofia Nałkowska (1884), Wojciech Korfanty (1873), Albert Chmielowski (1846), Marek Belka (1952), Wojciech Bogusławski (1757), and Ottomar Anschütz (1846). After him are Alfred Kerr (1867), Jan Kott (1914), Grigory Levenfish (1889), Gustav Radde (1831), Max Berg (1870), and Julius Hübner (1806).

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Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Nikifor ranks 31. Before him are Leon Wyczółkowski (1852), Jankel Adler (1895), Juliusz Kossak (1824), Stanisław Szukalski (1893), Eugen Schüfftan (1893), and Albert Chmielowski (1846). After him are Julius Hübner (1806), Władysław Ślewiński (1856), Broncia Koller-Pinell (1863), Hans Baluschek (1870), Józef Chełmoński (1849), and Józef Mehoffer (1869).

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