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Chaim Soutine

1893 - 1943

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Chaïm Soutine (Russian: Хаим Соломонович Сутин, Khaïm Solomonovitch Sutin; Yiddish: חײם סוטין, Ḥaïm Soutin; 13 January 1893 – 9 August 1943) was a French painter of Belarusian-Jewish origin of the School of Paris, who made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living and working in Paris.Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, Soutine developed an individual style more concerned with shape, color, and texture than representation, which served as a bridge between more traditional approaches and the developing form of Abstract Expressionism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chaim Soutine has received more than 322,532 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Chaim Soutine is the 168th most popular painter (up from 242nd in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 15th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belarusian Painter.

Chaim Soutine was a French painter who was most famous for his paintings of still lifes, landscapes, and portraits.

Memorability Metrics

  • 320k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Chaim Soutines by language

Over the past year Chaim Soutine has had the most page views in the with 40,333 views, followed by Russian (31,038), and German (29,732). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swedish (307.48%), Uzbek (280.00%), and Danish (201.86%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Chaim Soutine ranks 168 out of 2,023. Before him are Jacob van Ruisdael, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Théodore Rousseau, Hilma af Klint, Edward Hopper, and William Hogarth. After him are Niko Pirosmani, Gustave Caillebotte, Maurice Utrillo, Niccolò dell'Abbate, James Ensor, and Angelica Kauffman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Chaim Soutine ranks 14. Before him are Walter Ulbricht, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Carol II of Romania, Alexander of Greece, Soong Ching-ling, and Draža Mihailović. After him are Lazar Kaganovich, Roland Freisler, Harold Lloyd, Palmiro Togliatti, Edward Adelbert Doisy, and Karl Mannheim. Among people deceased in 1943, Chaim Soutine ranks 15. Before him are Henrik Pontoppidan, Boris III of Bulgaria, Theodor Eicke, Sophie Scholl, Henri La Fontaine, and Yakov Dzhugashvili. After him are Władysław Sikorski, Alexandre Millerand, Nikolai Vavilov, Max Wertheimer, Alexandre Yersin, and Maurice Denis.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Chaim Soutine ranks 12 out of 368. Before him are Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877), Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746), Alexander Lukashenko (1954), Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Andrei Gromyko (1909), and Simon Kuznets (1901). After him are Meyer Lansky (1902), Olga Korbut (1955), Zhores Alferov (1930), Zalman Shazar (1889), Ryszard Kapuściński (1932), and Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978).

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Among PAINTERS In Belarus

Among painters born in Belarus, Chaim Soutine ranks 2. Before him are Marc Chagall (1887). After him are Léon Bakst (1866), Władysław Strzemiński (1893), January Suchodolski (1797), Kazimierz Alchimowicz (1840), and Maja Berezowska (1893).

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