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Wojciech Gerson

1831 - 1901

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Wojciech Gerson (Polish: [ˈvɔjt͡ɕɛɣ ˈɡɛrsɔn]; 1 July 1831 – 25 February 1901) was a Polish painter, educator, architect and art critic who was one of the foremost representatives of the Polish school of Realism during the foreign Partitions of Poland. He served as long-time professor of the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and taught future luminaries of Polish neo-romanticism including Józef Chełmoński, Leon Wyczółkowski, Władysław Podkowiński, Józef Pankiewicz and Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowiczowa among others. He also wrote art-reviews and published a book of anatomy for the artists. A large number of his paintings were stolen by Nazi Germany in World War II, and never recovered. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wojciech Gerson is the 1,242nd most popular painter (up from 1,271st in 2019), the 713th most popular biography from Poland (up from 718th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Polish Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Wojciech Gerson ranks 1,242 out of 2,023. Before him are Kateryna Bilokur, Carl Blechen, Georges Mathieu, Thomas Hill, Aleksander Gierymski, and Wu Zhen. After him are Paul Ranson, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Dong Yuan, Franciabigio, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, and Arthur Hughes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Wojciech Gerson ranks 62. Before him are Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Johann von Herbeck, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Paolo Mantegazza, and Fatima Sheikh. After him are Theodor Aman, George Pullman, José Evaristo Uriburu, Alexandre Falguière, Subh-i-Azal, and Ebenezer Cobb Morley. Among people deceased in 1901, Wojciech Gerson ranks 56. Before him are Francesc Pi i Margall, John Kemp Starley, Edmond Audran, Alfred Tysoe, Princess Louise of Prussia, and Aleksander Gierymski. After him are Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ghevont Alishan, Cornelius Gurlitt, Prince Henri of Orléans, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, and Herman Grimm.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wojciech Gerson ranks 713 out of 1,694. Before him are Maria Dąbrowska (1889), Oskar Kummetz (1891), Helena Modjeska (1840), Bernhard Grzimek (1909), Miliza Korjus (1905), and Aleksander Gierymski (1850). After him are Gustav Adolf von Götzen (1866), Samuel Eilenberg (1913), Johann Gottlieb Georgi (1729), Leo Baeck (1873), Ernst Degner (1931), and Salomėja Nėris (1904).

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Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Wojciech Gerson ranks 22. Before him are Louis Marcoussis (1878), Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745), Władysław Podkowiński (1866), Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852), Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk (1884), and Aleksander Gierymski (1850). After him are Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808), Max Weber (1881), Leon Wyczółkowski (1852), Jankel Adler (1895), Juliusz Kossak (1824), and Stanisław Szukalski (1893).

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