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The Most Famous

ARTISTS from Sweden

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This page contains a list of the greatest Swedish Artists. The pantheon dataset contains 78 Artists, 1 of which were born in Sweden. This makes Sweden the birth place of the 16th most number of Artists behind Hungary and Serbia.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Swedish Artists of all time. This list of famous Swedish Artists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Anders Zorn (1860 - 1920)

With an HPI of 65.19, Anders Zorn is the most famous Swedish Artist.  His biography has been translated into 49 different languages on wikipedia.

Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was a Swedish artist. He attained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etching artist. Among Zorn's portrait subjects include King Oscar II of Sweden and three American Presidents: Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt. At the end of his life, he established the Swedish literary Bellman Prize in 1920.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as artists born between 1860 and 1860. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased artists include Anders Zorn.

Deceased Artists

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