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Slava Raškaj

1877 - 1906

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Slava Raškaj (pronounced [slǎːʋa rǎʃkaj]; 2 January 1877 – 29 March 1906) was a Croatian painter, considered to be the greatest Croatian watercolorist of the late 19th and early 20th century. Deaf since birth, Raškaj was schooled in Vienna and Zagreb, where her mentor was the renowned Croatian painter Bela Čikoš Sesija. In the 1890s her works were exhibited around Europe, including at the 1900 Expo in Paris. In her twenties Raškaj was diagnosed with acute depression and was institutionalised for the last three years of her life before dying in 1906 from tuberculosis in Zagreb. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Slava Raškaj is the 1,522nd most popular painter (up from 1,655th in 2019). (up from 3,654th in 2019)

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Among painters, Slava Raškaj ranks 1,522 out of 2,023. Before her are Cosmas Damian Asam, Eva Bonnier, Giovanni Santi, E. H. Shepard, Peter von Hess, and Teodor Axentowicz. After her are Hieronymus Cock, André Gill, Austin Osman Spare, Yun Shouping, David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl, and Edwin Austin Abbey.

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Among people born in 1877, Slava Raškaj ranks 119. Before her are Buddy Bolden, Henri Hazebrouck, Yan Huiqing, James Montgomery Flagg, Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Walter Sutton. After her are Norman Brookes, Carl Tanzler, Lewis Terman, Mohammad Ali Foroughi, Maurice Farman, and Frederick Twort. Among people deceased in 1906, Slava Raškaj ranks 59. Before her are Suzanne Manet, Ferdinand Brunetière, Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Fritz Schaudinn, Stevan Sremac, and Johann Dzierzon. After her are Manuel Quintana, Spencer Gore, Ernst Josephson, Manuel García, Heinrich Gelzer, and Julius Wilbrand.

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