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Amrita Sher-Gil

1913 - 1941

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Amrita Sher-Gil (30 January 1913 – 5 December 1941) was a Hungarian-Indian painter. She has been called "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century" and a pioneer in modern Indian art. Drawn to painting from an early age, Sher-Gil started formal lessons at the age of eight. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amrita Sher-Gil has received more than 2,208,881 page views. Her biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Amrita Sher-Gil is the 606th most popular painter (up from 929th in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 256th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Hungarian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Amrita Sher-Gil ranks 606 out of 1,421Before her are Bartolomeo Manfredi, Francesco de' Rossi, Otto van Veen, Justus van Gent, Domenico Fetti, and Palma il Giovane. After her are Ambrosius Bosschaert, Tang Yin, Francesco Solimena, Giulio Clovio, Pieter van Laer, and Fede Galizia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Amrita Sher-Gil ranks 86Before her are Wolfgang Lüth, Shih Kien, Bruno Pontecorvo, Pierre Werner, Israel Gelfand, and Marika Rökk. After her are Johannes Steinhoff, Haxhi Lleshi, Bill Shankly, José Sánchez del Río, Alexander Marinesko, and Victor Mature. Among people deceased in 1941, Amrita Sher-Gil ranks 60Before her are Maria Spiridonova, Franz Gürtner, Émile Picard, Ivan Panfilov, Hans Berger, and Charles Huntziger. After her are Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Natalie of Serbia, Annie Jump Cannon, Alfred Hettner, Henri Cornet, and Guillermo Kahlo.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Amrita Sher-Gil ranks 169 out of 866Before her are István Sándorfi (1948), Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria (1870), Péter Nádas (1942), Béla Tarr (1955), Constance of Hungary (1180), and Ingenuus (200). After her are Tivadar Soros (1894), Béla Miklós (1890), Geraldine of Albania (1915), William Fox (1879), Gyula Lóránt (1923), and Miklós Zrínyi (1620).

Among PAINTERS In Hungary

Among painters born in Hungary, Amrita Sher-Gil ranks 3Before her are Mihály Zichy (1827) and István Sándorfi (1948). After her are Mihály Munkácsy (1844), Gyula Benczúr (1844), László Mednyánszky (1852), Philip de László (1869), József Rippl-Rónai (1861), Igor Grabar (1871), Vilmos Aba-Novák (1894), and Katarina Ivanović (1811).