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Zdeněk Burian

1905 - 1981

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Zdeněk Michael František Burian (11 February 1905 – 1 July 1981) was a Czech painter, book illustrator and palaeoartist. Burian's artwork played a central role in the development of palaeontological reconstruction and he is regarded as one of the most influential palaeoartists of all time. Burian began his career as an illustrator in the 1920s and became famous in his native Czechoslovakia for his illustrations of novels, mainly adventure novels and classic works. His illustrations of the novel The Mammoth Hunters (1937) by Eduard Štorch gained the attention of the Czech palaeontologist Josef Augusta, who collaborated with Burian as a scientific advisor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zdeněk Burian is the 1,143rd most popular painter (down from 1,104th in 2019), the 378th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 350th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Czech Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Zdeněk Burian ranks 1,143 out of 2,023. Before him are Torii Kiyonaga, Antoine Caron, Martin van Meytens, Jenny Nyström, Ugolino di Nerio, and Corneille Guillaume Beverloo. After him are Bartolomeo Carducci, Franz Kline, Willem Drost, Kanō Motonobu, Vincenzo Foppa, and Massimo Stanzione.

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Among people born in 1905, Zdeněk Burian ranks 153. Before him are Louis Rosier, Henry Koster, Grigori Kozintsev, Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, Mariya Oktyabrskaya, and Edwin H. Colbert. After him are Mildred Natwick, Joan Coromines, Pierre Brasseur, Harry Harlow, Étienne Mattler, and Sanford Meisner. Among people deceased in 1981, Zdeněk Burian ranks 109. Before him are T. H. Marshall, Gloria Grahame, Charles Barton, Edvard Kocbek, Mica Todorović, and Hermann Esser. After him are Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia, Roman Rudenko, Jaime Roldós Aguilera, Harry Harlow, Mostafa Chamran, and Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Zdeněk Burian ranks 378 out of 1,200. Before him are Ivan Mládek (1942), Otakar Vávra (1911), Antonín Vranický (1761), Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791), Rudolf Beran (1887), and Jan Václav Voříšek (1791). After him are Franz Konwitschny (1901), Franz Krommer (1759), Joseph von Sonnenfels (1732), Viktor Dyk (1877), Jana Brejchová (1940), and Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz (1686).

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Among PAINTERS In Czechia

Among painters born in Czechia, Zdeněk Burian ranks 10. Before him are Wenceslaus Hollar (1607), Anna Chromý (1940), Emil Orlík (1870), Georg Flegel (1566), Toyen (1902), and Gabriel von Max (1840). After him are Mikoláš Aleš (1852), Petr Brandl (1668), Josef Mánes (1820), Joseph von Führich (1800), Bohumil Kubišta (1884), and Václav Brožík (1851).

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