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Octav Băncilă

1872 - 1944

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Octav Băncilă (Romanian pronunciation: [okˈtav bənˈt͡ʃilə]; 4 February 1872 – 3 April 1944) was a Romanian realist painter and left-wing activist. He was the brother of Sofia Nădejde, a feminist journalist, and the brother-in-law of Ioan Nădejde (an atheist and socialist thinker, editor of the magazine Contemporanul). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Octav Băncilă is the 1,915th most popular painter (down from 1,895th in 2019), the 478th most popular biography from Romania (down from 455th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Romanian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Octav Băncilă ranks 1,915 out of 2,023. Before him are Louise Rayner, Zofia Stryjeńska, Albert Pinkham Ryder, William Duesbury, Neo Rauch, and Paul Nash. After him are Charles Hamilton Smith, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Colin Campbell Cooper, Maxfield Parrish, Gerald Scarfe, and George Caleb Bingham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Octav Băncilă ranks 183. Before him are Dimitrios Drivas, Jonas Vileišis, Siegfried Flesch, Leonid Sobinov, Lucille La Verne, and Ivan Fomin. After him are Bernard Knubel, Eugenie Schwarzwald, Sidney Olcott, Ľudmila Podjavorinská, William Desmond Taylor, and Harald Natvig. Among people deceased in 1944, Octav Băncilă ranks 298. Before him are John Dill, David Prain, Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Eugen Burg, Eoin O'Duffy, and Franz Berghammer. After him are Aimee Semple McPherson, George Herriman, Merna Kennedy, Katri Vala, Ernest Townsend, and Alfred Schmalzer.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Octav Băncilă ranks 478 out of 844. Before him are Irina Petrescu (1941), Gusztáv Juhász (1911), Florin Cîțu (1972), Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu (1962), Monica Lovinescu (1923), and Liviu Dragnea (1962). After him are Cornel Penu (1946), Paula Ivan (1963), Vasile Deheleanu (1910), Ioachim Moldoveanu (1913), Alma Gluck (1884), and Dacian Cioloș (1969).

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Among PAINTERS In Romania

Among painters born in Romania, Octav Băncilă ranks 13. Before him are Isidor Kaufmann (1853), Corneliu Baba (1906), Ștefan Luchian (1868), Ion Andreescu (1850), Blanka Teleki (1806), and Theodor Pallady (1871). After him are Alexandra Nechita (1985).

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