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Balthus

1908 - 2001

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Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his imagery. Throughout his career, Balthus rejected the usual conventions of the art world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Balthus has received more than 834,577 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Balthus is the 365th most popular painter (down from 272nd in 2019), the 1,162nd most popular biography from France (down from 852nd in 2019) and the 76th most popular French Painter.

Balthus is most famous for his paintings of young girls.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Balthus ranks 365 out of 2,023. Before him are Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Francesco Albani, Stefan Lochner, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Elisabetta Sirani, and Abraham Bloemaert. After him are Jan Gossaert, Maarten van Heemskerck, Anna Ancher, Paul Sérusier, Norman Rockwell, and Willem Claesz. Heda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Balthus ranks 50. Before him are Alfred Hershey, Chivu Stoica, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, Józef Gosławski, Victor Ambartsumian, and Giovanni Leone. After him are Lita Grey, Victor Weisskopf, Robert Merle, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Rex Harrison, and Stéphane Grappelli. Among people deceased in 2001, Balthus ranks 39. Before him are Morris, W. G. Sebald, Timothy McVeigh, Charles Trenet, Juan Antonio Villacañas, and Giovanni Leone. After him are Chung Ju-yung, Anna Mani, Isaac Stern, Donald J. Cram, Francisco Rabal, and Jacques Mayol.

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In France

Among people born in France, Balthus ranks 1,162 out of 6,770. Before him are André Bazin (1918), Francis, Count of Vendôme (1470), Henry I of Navarre (1244), Theuderic II (587), André Weil (1906), and Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville (1746). After him are Jan Gossaert (1478), Jean-Claude Carrière (1931), Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (1197), Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1655), B. H. Liddell Hart (1895), and Paul Sérusier (1864).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Balthus ranks 76. Before him are Léon Bonnat (1833), Thomas Couture (1815), Jean-Marc Nattier (1685), Claude Joseph Vernet (1714), Pierre Mignard (1612), and Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1768). After him are Jan Gossaert (1478), Paul Sérusier (1864), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749), Émile Bernard (1868), Édouard Vuillard (1868), and Marie Laurencin (1883).

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