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Ulay

1943 - 2020

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Frank Uwe Laysiepen (German: [fʁaŋk ˈʔuːvə laɪˈziːpm̩]; 30 November 1943 – 2 March 2020), known professionally as Ulay, was a German artist based in Amsterdam and Ljubljana, who received international recognition for his Polaroid art and collaborative performance art with longtime companion Marina Abramović. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ulay is the 37th most popular artist (down from 30th in 2019), the 1,750th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,239th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Artist.

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Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Ulay ranks 37 out of 125. Before him are Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bernt Notke, Barnett Newman, Méret Oppenheim, William Wallace Denslow, and John Heartfield. After him are André Charles Boulle, Jeff Koons, Marcel Janco, Marianne Brandt, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Nicholas of Verdun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Ulay ranks 144. Before him are Jacques Dutronc, Masafumi Hara, Arturo Merzario, Chevy Chase, Tobe Hooper, and Dušan Ivković. After him are Robert Axelrod, Peter Sauber, Beba Lončar, Pak Doo-ik, Richard Sennett, and José Ángel Iribar. Among people deceased in 2020, Ulay ranks 119. Before him are MF Doom, Kenzō Takada, Wim Suurbier, Manu Dibango, Daniel arap Moi, and Claude Brasseur. After him are Otto Barić, James Randi, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Honor Blackman, Nikolai Kapustin, and Jerry Rawlings.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ulay ranks 1,750 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1727), Karl von Piloty (1826), Conrad Veidt (1893), Christian Morgenstern (1871), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), and Monika Ertl (1937). After him are Johann Schein (1586), Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579), Leonhart Fuchs (1501), Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), and Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1761).

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Among ARTISTS In Germany

Among artists born in Germany, Ulay ranks 8. Before him are Joseph Beuys (1921), Kurt Schwitters (1887), Josef Albers (1888), Bernt Notke (1435), Méret Oppenheim (1913), and John Heartfield (1891). After him are Marianne Brandt (1893), Gunta Stölzl (1897), and Daniel Hopfer (1470).

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