ARTIST

Anders Zorn

1860 - 1920

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Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was a Swedish artist who attained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etching artist. His portrait subjects include King Oscar II of Sweden and three American Presidents: Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anders Zorn has received more than 553,845 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia. Anders Zorn is the 9th most popular artist (up from 19th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 79th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Artist.

Anders Zorn was a Swedish painter and sculptor. He is most famous for his portraits.

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Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Anders Zorn ranks 9 out of 125Before him are Marcel Duchamp, Yoko Ono, M. C. Escher, Jusepe de Ribera, Hans Holbein the Younger, and Victor Vasarely. After him are Hiroshige, Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, Jean Arp, Käthe Kollwitz, and Roy Lichtenstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Anders Zorn ranks 10Before him are Klara Hitler, Jane Addams, Alphonse Mucha, Eduard Buchner, Kanō Jigorō, and Raymond Poincaré. After him are Willem Einthoven, William Jennings Bryan, Isaac Albéniz, Herman Hollerith, James Ensor, and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando. Among people deceased in 1920, Anders Zorn ranks 7Before him are Max Weber, Amedeo Modigliani, Wilhelm Wundt, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Peter Carl Fabergé, and Eugénie de Montijo. After him are Alexander Kolchak, Alexander of Greece, Princess Margaret of Connaught, Robert Peary, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Max Bruch.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Anders Zorn ranks 38 out of 1,879Before him are John III of Sweden (1537), Princess Märtha of Sweden (1901), Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (1906), Emanuel Swedenborg (1688), Charles XIII of Sweden (1748), and Klas Pontus Arnoldson (1844). After him are Charles XV of Sweden (1826), Agnetha Fältskog (1950), Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden (1688), Charles XI of Sweden (1655), Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (1778), and Manne Siegbahn (1886).

Among ARTISTS In Sweden

Among artists born in Sweden, Anders Zorn ranks 1