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Anton Ažbe

1862 - 1905

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Anton Ažbe (30 May 1862 – 5 or 6 August 1905) was a Slovene realist painter and teacher of painting. Ažbe, crippled since birth and orphaned at the age of eight, learned painting as an apprentice to Janez Wolf and at the Academies in Vienna and Munich. At the age of 30, Ažbe founded his own school of painting in Munich that became a popular attraction for Eastern European students. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anton Ažbe has received more than 65,641 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Anton Ažbe is the 651st most popular painter (up from 690th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Slovenia (up from 70th in 2019) and the most popular Slovene Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Anton Ažbe ranks 651 out of 2,023. Before him are Adriaen van Utrecht, Sharaku, Bartolomeo Vivarini, Francesco de' Rossi, Jean Béraud, and István Sándorfi. After him are Alessandro Magnasco, Ni Zan, Tang Yin, Theodor Kittelsen, Jannis Kounellis, and Barthélemy d'Eyck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Anton Ažbe ranks 48. Before him are Aurel Stein, Leonid Pasternak, Tomitaro Makino, René Viviani, Théo van Rysselberghe, and Infanta María de la Paz of Spain. After him are Cao Kun, Oswald Külpe, Mikhail Nesterov, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Nitobe Inazō, and Arvid Lindman. Among people deceased in 1905, Anton Ažbe ranks 24. Before him are Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Alois Riegl, Constantin Meunier, Oswald Achenbach, Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria, and Alphonse Allais. After him are Hudson Taylor, Albert von Kölliker, Marcel Schwob, Adolf Bastian, Ivan Sechenov, and Otto Wilhelm von Struve.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Anton Ažbe ranks 31 out of 340. Before him are Primož Trubar (1508), Jacobus Gallus (1550), Ulrich II, Count of Celje (1406), Branko Oblak (1947), Danilo Türk (1952), and Margit Korondi (1932). After him are Alma Karlin (1889), Anton Korošec (1872), Nino Benvenuti (1938), Johann Weikhard von Valvasor (1641), Jurij Vega (1754), and Srečko Katanec (1963).

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Among PAINTERS In Slovenia

Among painters born in Slovenia, Anton Ažbe ranks 1. After him are Ivana Kobilca (1861), Anton Janša (1734), Zoran Mušič (1909), Ivan Grohar (1867), and Rihard Jakopič (1869).

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