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Tsuguharu Foujita

1886 - 1968

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Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (藤田 嗣治, Fujita Tsuguharu; 27 November 1886 – 29 January 1968) was a Japanese-French painter. After studying Western-style painting in Japan, Foujita travelled to Paris, where he encountered the international modern art scene of the Montparnasse neighbourhood and developed an eclectic style that borrowed from both Japanese and European artistic traditions. With his unusual fashion and distinctive figurative style, Foujita reached the height of his fame in 1920s Paris. His watercolour and oil works of nudes, still lifes, and self-portraits were a commercial success and he became a notable figure in the Parisian art scene. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tsuguharu Foujita is the 574th most popular painter (down from 492nd in 2019), the 495th most popular biography from Japan (down from 321st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Tsuguharu Foujita ranks 574 out of 2,023. Before him are Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Thomas Lawrence, Mattia Preti, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Max Pechstein, and Raoul Hausmann. After him are Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, Dorothea Tanning, Kunisada, Jens Juel, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, and Michael Pacher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Tsuguharu Foujita ranks 64. Before him are Paul Lévy, Hitoshi Imamura, Mary Wigman, Karl Korsch, Giovanni Battista Caproni, and Raoul Hausmann. After him are Raymond A. Spruance, Werner Kempf, Sessue Hayakawa, Georg Stumme, Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, and Nobutake Kondō. Among people deceased in 1968, Tsuguharu Foujita ranks 51. Before him are Georgios Papandreou, Charles Chaplin Jr., Leopold Infeld, George Hackenschmidt, Hitoshi Imamura, and Zaki al-Arsuzi. After him are Fritz Bauer, Boris Lyatoshinsky, John Heartfield, Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, Jean Hyppolite, and István Dobi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tsuguharu Foujita ranks 495 out of 6,245. Before him are Toshio Suzuki (1948), Seiki Ichihara (1950), Emperor Go-Suzaku (1009), Tokugawa Iesada (1824), Hisaichi Terauchi (1879), and Masafumi Hara (1943). After him are Fumihiko Maki (1928), Kunisada (1786), Takeo Takahashi (1947), Mōri Terumoto (1533), Saitō Hajime (1844), and Seki Takakazu (1642).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Tsuguharu Foujita ranks 7. Before him are Yayoi Kusama (1929), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797), Utamaro (1753), Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Suzuki Harunobu (1725), and Hishikawa Moronobu (1618). After him are Kunisada (1786), Masaaki Hatsumi (1931), Yoshitoshi (1839), Takashi Murakami (1962), Ogata Kōrin (1658), and Kanō Eitoku (1543).

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