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Antoni Gaudí

1852 - 1926

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Antoni Gaudí i Cornet ( gow-DEE, GOW-dee, Catalan: [ənˈtɔni ɣəwˈði]; 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect and designer from Spain, known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works have a highly individualized, sui generis style. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoni Gaudí has received more than 6,639,566 page views. His biography is available in 109 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 108 in 2019). Antoni Gaudí is the most popular architect, the 5th most popular biography from Spain and the most popular Spanish Architect.

Antoni Gaudí is most famous for his architectural works. His most famous work is the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, which is a Roman Catholic church that he designed and built.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Antoni Gaudí ranks 1 out of 424After him are Le Corbusier, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Imhotep, Vitruvius, Mimar Sinan, Filippo Brunelleschi, Alvar Aalto, Albert Speer, Donato Bramante, Leon Battista Alberti, and Andrea Palladio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Antoni Gaudí ranks 1After him are Henri Becquerel, Emperor Meiji, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Emil Fischer, Henri Moissan, Gojong of Korea, Albert A. Michelson, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, William Ramsay, Francisco Tárrega, and Joseph Joffre. Among people deceased in 1926, Antoni Gaudí ranks 2Before him is Claude Monet. After him are Mehmed VI, Rainer Maria Rilke, Harry Houdini, Emperor Taishō, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Camillo Golgi, Mary Cassatt, and Emil Kraepelin.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Antoni Gaudí ranks 5 out of 2,932Before him are Pablo Picasso (1881), Salvador Dalí (1904), Miguel de Cervantes (1547), and Francisco Goya (1746). After him are Seneca the Younger (-4), Averroes (1126), Diego Velázquez (1599), Trajan (53), Francisco Franco (1892), Philip II of Spain (1527), and Hernán Cortés (1485).

Among ARCHITECTS In Spain

Among architects born in Spain, Antoni Gaudí ranks 1After him are Santiago Calatrava (1951), Ricardo Bofill (1939), Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850), Rafael Moneo (1937), Alonzo Cano (1601), Josep Puig i Cadafalch (1867), Juan de Herrera (1530), Muhammad V of Granada (1339), Félix Candela (1910), Josep Lluís Sert (1902), and Josep Maria Jujol (1879).