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Paul Delvaux

1897 - 1994

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Paul Delvaux (French: [dɛlvo]; 23 September 1897 – 20 July 1994) was a Belgian painter noted for his dream-like scenes of women, classical architecture, trains and train stations, and skeletons, often in combination. He is often considered a surrealist, although he only briefly identified with the Surrealist movement. He was influenced by the works of Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, but developed his own fantastical subjects and hyper-realistic styling, combining the detailed classical beauty of academic painting with the bizarre juxtapositions of surrealism. Throughout his long career, Delvaux explored "Nude and skeleton, the clothed and the unclothed, male and female, desire and horror, eroticism and death – Delvaux's major anxieties in fact, and the greater themes of his later work [...]". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Delvaux is the 300th most popular painter (down from 211th in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from Belgium (down from 74th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Belgian Painter.

Paul Delvaux is most famous for his surrealist paintings. He was born in 1898 and died in 1994.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Paul Delvaux ranks 300 out of 2,023. Before him are Masolino da Panicale, Giorgio Morandi, Jacques Callot, H. R. Giger, François Clouet, and Viktor Vasnetsov. After him are Erwin Bowien, Willem Claesz. Heda, Gerard David, Ludovico Carracci, Joachim Patinir, and Pieter Claesz.

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Among people born in 1897, Paul Delvaux ranks 44. Before him are Otto Strasser, Jimmie Rodgers, Hasso von Manteuffel, Plaek Phibunsongkhram, John Cockcroft, and Ivan Bagramyan. After him are John Franklin Enders, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, Margaret Mahler, and Kirill Meretskov. Among people deceased in 1994, Paul Delvaux ranks 45. Before him are Pierre Boulle, Vladimir Ivashko, Witold Lutosławski, Henry Mancini, Gian Maria Volonté, and Menachem Mendel Schneerson. After him are Roger Wolcott Sperry, Julian Schwinger, Juvénal Habyarimana, Fernando Rey, Pujie, and Sylva Koscina.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Paul Delvaux ranks 101 out of 1,190. Before him are Jacques Piccard (1922), Philippe de Champaigne (1602), Rik Van Looy (1933), Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (1350), Marie José of Belgium (1906), and Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg (1240). After him are Gilles Binchois (1400), Joachim Patinir (1480), Pieter Claesz (1596), Anne of France (1461), Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601), and Guy Verhofstadt (1953).

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Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Paul Delvaux ranks 14. Before him are Jacob Jordaens (1593), James Ensor (1860), Hugo van der Goes (1440), Quentin Matsys (1466), Hubert van Eyck (1366), and Philippe de Champaigne (1602). After him are Joachim Patinir (1480), Pieter Claesz (1596), Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601), Karel van Mander (1548), Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502), and Félicien Rops (1833).

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