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Paul Gauguin

1848 - 1903

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Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (; French: [øʒɛn ɑ̃ʁi pɔl ɡoɡɛ̃]; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an influential practitioner of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. While only moderately successful during his lifetime, Gauguin has since been recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism. Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848, amidst the tumult of Europe's revolutionary year. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Gauguin is the 21st most popular painter (down from 20th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from France (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Painter.

Paul Gauguin is most famous for his painting, "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?"

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Paul Gauguin ranks 21 out of 2,023. Before him are Edvard Munch, Diego Velázquez, Henri Matisse, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and Paul Cézanne. After him are Giotto, Donatello, Titian, Gustav Klimt, El Greco, and Wassily Kandinsky.

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Among people born in 1848, Paul Gauguin ranks 1. After him are Octave Mirbeau, Vilfredo Pareto, Gottlob Frege, Raja Ravi Varma, Otto of Bavaria, Johann Palisa, Otto Lilienthal, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Gustave Caillebotte, Hugo de Vries, and Helmuth von Moltke the Younger. Among people deceased in 1903, Paul Gauguin ranks 2. Before him is Pope Leo XIII. After him are Theodor Mommsen, Herbert Spencer, Camille Pissarro, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Alois Hitler, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Alexander I of Serbia, and Hugo Wolf.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Gauguin ranks 37 out of 6,770. Before him are Auguste Comte (1798), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Paul Cézanne (1839), Coco Chanel (1883), John Calvin (1509), and Louis XIII of France (1601). After him are Émile Durkheim (1858), Napoleon III (1808), Louis XVIII of France (1755), Claudius (-10), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), and Charles Baudelaire (1821).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Paul Gauguin ranks 6. Before him are Claude Monet (1840), Henri Matisse (1869), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), and Paul Cézanne (1839). After him are Édouard Manet (1832), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Edgar Degas (1834), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Gustave Courbet (1819), and Nicolas Poussin (1594).

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