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Tadeusz Kantor

1915 - 1990

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Tadeusz Kantor (6 April 1915 – 8 December 1990) was a Polish painter, assemblage and Happenings artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor is renowned for his revolutionary theatrical performances in Poland and abroad. Laureate of Witkacy Prize – Critics' Circle Award (1989). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tadeusz Kantor is the 677th most popular painter (down from 642nd in 2019), the 378th most popular biography from Poland (down from 360th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Tadeusz Kantor ranks 677 out of 2,023Before him are Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Mikhail Nesterov, Bartolomeo Manfredi, Anton Graff, Valentin de Boulogne, and Thomas Cole. After him are Philips Wouwerman, Carolus-Duran, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Margaret Keane, Altichiero, and Francisco Herrera the Elder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Tadeusz Kantor ranks 81Before him are Mario Monicelli, Gyula Zsengellér, Takahito, Prince Mikasa, Tapio Wirkkala, Marie-Louise von Franz, and Piet de Jong. After him are Denis Thatcher, Ibolya Csák, Kunihiko Kodaira, Peter Medawar, Godfrey Brown, and Branko Ćopić. Among people deceased in 1990, Tadeusz Kantor ranks 70Before him are Manuel Puig, Nina Kulagina, Meir Kahane, Edmund Conen, Art Blakey, and Curtis LeMay. After him are Nicola Abbagnano, Jim Henson, Samuel Noah Kramer, Samuel Doe, David Rose, and Dexter Gordon.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Tadeusz Kantor ranks 378 out of 1,694Before him are Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1863), Krystyna Janda (1952), Anna Catherine Constance Vasa (1619), Roman Ingarden (1893), Kazimierz Fajans (1887), and Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834). After him are Emin Pasha (1840), Stanisław Wojciechowski (1869), Joachim Kroll (1933), Stanisław Wyspiański (1869), Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1755), and Samuel Goldwyn (1879).

Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Tadeusz Kantor ranks 7Before him are Jan Matejko (1838), Tamara de Lempicka (1898), Zdzisław Beksiński (1929), Aleksandra Ekster (1882), Otto Mueller (1874), and Moïse Kisling (1891). After him are Jacek Malczewski (1854), Daniel Chodowiecki (1726), Hans Bellmer (1902), Olga Boznańska (1865), Aleksander Orłowski (1777), and Józef Brandt (1841).