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Dennis Oppenheim

1938 - 2011

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Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer. Dennis Oppenheim's early artistic practice is an epistemological questioning about the nature of art, the making of art and the definition of art: a meta-art that arose when strategies of the Minimalists were expanded to focus on site and context. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dennis Oppenheim has received more than 130,639 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Dennis Oppenheim is the 192nd most popular sculptor (down from 108th in 2019), the 5,581st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,962nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Sculptor.

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  • 2.70

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Dennis Oppenheim ranks 192 out of 258. Before him are Léon Delagrange, Stepan Erzia, Jacob Epstein, Marisol Escobar, Mona Hatoum, and Gerhard Marcks. After him are Lev Kerbel, Anthony Caro, Anne Seymour Damer, Louis-Ernest Barrias, Louise Nevelson, and Matthias Braun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Dennis Oppenheim ranks 332. Before him are Jay Garner, Maurizio Costanzo, Murtala Mohammed, James Farentino, Klaus Hänsch, and Sonny Barger. After him are Rika Zaraï, Valentin Mankin, Aristide Guarneri, Roger E. Mosley, Paolo Romeo, and Jean-Claude Mézières. Among people deceased in 2011, Dennis Oppenheim ranks 245. Before him are Dorian Gray, Bob Brookmeyer, Theodore Roszak, Maurice Guigue, Justinas Marcinkevičius, and Zhanna Prokhorenko. After him are Jean Bartik, Nusrat Bhutto, Edward Hardwicke, Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, Harry Morgan, and Peter Post.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dennis Oppenheim ranks 5,581 out of 20,380. Before him are Arthur Laffer (1940), Lori Singer (1957), Charles Martin Smith (1953), Mary Blair (1911), Alan Lomax (1915), and Grace Sherwood (1660). After him are Eric Adams (1960), Paul Butterfield (1942), William H. Prescott (1796), David Proval (1942), Victor Sen Yung (1914), and Sylvia Miles (1924).

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Among SCULPTORS In United States

Among sculptors born in United States, Dennis Oppenheim ranks 9. Before him are Isamu Noguchi (1904), Robert Morris (1931), Dan Flavin (1933), Anna Coleman Ladd (1878), Walter De Maria (1935), and Jacob Epstein (1880). After him are Audrey Munson (1891), Edmonia Lewis (1844), Duane Hanson (1925), Daniel Chester French (1850), Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875), and Chris Burden (1946).

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