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Toyen

1902 - 1980

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Toyen (born Marie Čermínová; 21 September 1902 – 9 November 1980) was a Czech painter, drafter, and illustrator and a member of the surrealist movement. In 1923, the artist adopted the professional pseudonym Toyen. The name Toyen has been suggested to be derived from the French word 'citoyen,' meaning citizen, but it has also been proposed to be a play on the Czech expression ‘to je on’ (‘it is he’). Toyen favored this gender-neutral mononym (in Czech the family name is gendered, with women's names ending in "ová") and would speak the language in the masculine singular form. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Toyen is the 950th most popular painter (up from 981st in 2019), the 311th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 306th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Czech Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Toyen ranks 950 out of 2,023. Before her are Anne Vallayer-Coster, Master Francke, Oda Krohg, Georg Flegel, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, and Herri met de Bles. After her are Vanessa Bell, Francesco Pesellino, Philip de László, Elin Danielson-Gambogi, Prospero Fontana, and Richard Gerstl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Toyen ranks 129. Before her are Moderato Wisintainer, Jan Tschichold, Alexander Mach, Thelma Ritter, Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, and Ernst von Salomon. After her are Emanuel Feuermann, Ilmari Salminen, Alphonse Matejka, Fritz Machlup, Vasil Mzhavanadze, and Józef Maria Bocheński. Among people deceased in 1980, Toyen ranks 111. Before her are Yahya Khan, Luigi Longo, Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Alexander Mach, and André Leducq. After her are Mohammed Rafi, Pietro Nenni, Erich Hückel, Hiroshi Inagaki, Leopold Kielholz, and Hellmuth Walter.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Toyen ranks 311 out of 1,200. Before her are Mirek Topolánek (1956), Catherine of Poděbrady (1449), Gorazd (1879), Wenceslaus II, Duke of Bohemia (1137), Paul Wranitzky (1756), and Georg Flegel (1566). After her are Karel Kosík (1926), Alois Jirásek (1851), Miloslav Vlk (1932), Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria (1863), Václav Nedomanský (1944), and Procopius of Sázava (970).

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Among PAINTERS In Czechia

Among painters born in Czechia, Toyen ranks 8. Before her are Anton Raphael Mengs (1728), František Kupka (1871), Wenceslaus Hollar (1607), Anna Chromý (1940), Emil Orlík (1870), and Georg Flegel (1566). After her are Gabriel von Max (1840), Zdeněk Burian (1905), Mikoláš Aleš (1852), Petr Brandl (1668), Josef Mánes (1820), and Joseph von Führich (1800).

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