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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 60,520 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Anton Ažbe is the 691st most popular painter (down from 650th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Bulgaria (down from 60th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Bulgarian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Anton Ažbe ranks 691 out of 1,421Before him are Francesco Squarcione, Amédée Ozenfant, Lippo Memmi, Agostino Tassi, Jan Kupecký, and David Roberts. After him are Ludolf Bakhuizen, Emanuel de Witte, Carolus-Duran, Giovanni Baglione, Frans Masereel, and Jasper Johns.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Anton Ažbe ranks 50Before him are August Oetker, Mikhail Nesterov, Infanta María de la Paz of Spain, Frederick Delius, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Henry McMahon. After him are René Viviani, Nitobe Inazō, Cao Kun, Adolphe Appia, Edvard Westermarck, and Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky. Among people deceased in 1905, Anton Ažbe ranks 29Before him are Alphonse Allais, Oswald Achenbach, Albert von Kölliker, Adolf Bastian, Marcel Schwob, and Infanta Amalia of Spain. After him are George MacDonald, Carmine Crocco, Lew Wallace, Tippu Tip, Franz Reuleaux, and Otto Wilhelm von Struve.

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In Bulgaria

Among people born in Bulgaria, Anton Ažbe ranks 70 out of 372Before him are Kaliman I of Bulgaria (1234), Boyko Borisov (1959), Osman Pazvantoğlu (1758), Aleksandar Tsankov (1879), Gregory Tsamblak (1365), and Peter II of Bulgaria (1150). After him are Kimon Georgiev (1882), Valko Chervenkov (1900), Smilets of Bulgaria (1200), Časlav (896), George I of Bulgaria (1300), and Johann Weikhard von Valvasor (1641).

Among PAINTERS In Bulgaria

Among painters born in Bulgaria, Anton Ažbe ranks 2Before him are Jules Pascin (1885). After him are Vladimir Dimitrov (1882).