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Vilhelms Purvītis

1872 - 1945

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Vilhelms Purvītis (3 March 1872 – 14 January 1945) was a landscape painter and educator who founded the Latvian Academy of Art and was its rector from 1919 to 1934. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vilhelms Purvītis is the 1,299th most popular painter (up from 1,393rd in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 100th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Latvian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Vilhelms Purvītis ranks 1,299 out of 2,023. Before him are Salomon Gessner, Max Weber, Albert Küchler, Jan Mostaert, Eustache Le Sueur, and Torii Kiyonobu I. After him are Josef Mánes, Daniele Crespi, Georges Vantongerloo, Adam van Noort, Oswaldo Guayasamín, and Tamar Abakelia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Vilhelms Purvītis ranks 107. Before him are Armen Garo, Camille Guérin, Carl Gustaf Ekman, Paul Reinecke, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, and Alexandru Vaida-Voevod. After him are Karin Michaëlis, Georges Urbain, Kristine Bonnevie, Tōson Shimazaki, Déodat de Séverac, and Kazimierz Bein. Among people deceased in 1945, Vilhelms Purvītis ranks 235. Before him are Lucien Simon, Sekula Drljević, Salomėja Nėris, Carl Moll, Ludwig Diels, and Kurt von der Chevallerie. After him are Hélène Berr, Arthur Wynne, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Ángel Melogno, Alexander Khatisian, and Albert Tyler.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Vilhelms Purvītis ranks 94 out of 323. Before him are Yury Tynyanov (1894), Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801), Lina Stern (1878), Eduard Totleben (1818), Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809), and Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829). After him are Arvīds Jansons (1914), Jānis Rudzutaks (1887), Krišjānis Barons (1835), Janis Rozentāls (1866), Garlieb Merkel (1769), and Anatolijs Gorbunovs (1942).

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Among PAINTERS In Latvia

Among painters born in Latvia, Vilhelms Purvītis ranks 3. Before him are Mark Rothko (1903), and Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824). After him are Janis Rozentāls (1866), and Vija Celmins (1938).

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