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Dora Maar

1907 - 1997

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Henriette Theodora Markovitch (22 November 1907 – 16 July 1997), known as Dora Maar, was a French photographer, painter, and poet. Maar was both a pioneering Surrealist artist and an antifascist activist. Her revolutionary work ranged from commercial assignments in fashion and advertising to documenting social and economic struggles during the Depression, and explored evocative Surrealist themes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dora Maar has received more than 1,619,340 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Dora Maar is the 8th most popular photographer, the 849th most popular biography from France (down from 743rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Photographer.

Dora Maar was a surrealist painter who is most famous for her painting of Pablo Picasso.

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Dora Maar ranks 8 out of 148. Before her are Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helmut Newton, Alberto Korda, Robert Doisneau, Alexander Rodchenko, and Eadweard Muybridge. After her are Heinrich Hoffmann, Vivian Maier, Elliott Erwitt, Julia Margaret Cameron, Gunter Sachs, and Felice Beato.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Dora Maar ranks 40. Before her are Hans Selye, Burgess Meredith, Giovanna of Italy, Maurice Blanchot, Erich Mielke, and Roman Shukhevych. After her are Konstantinos Karamanlis, Lucien Laurent, Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, Compay Segundo, Lê Duẩn, and Varlam Shalamov. Among people deceased in 1997, Dora Maar ranks 34. Before her are Burgess Meredith, Aldo Rossi, Clyde Tombaugh, Robert Mitchum, Carl Gustav Hempel, and Edward Mills Purcell. After her are Zoltán Czibor, Chien-Shiung Wu, Willem de Kooning, Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Cornelius Castoriadis, and John Eccles.

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In France

Among people born in France, Dora Maar ranks 849 out of 6,770. Before her are Henri Fantin-Latour (1836), Lorin Maazel (1930), Georges Couthon (1755), Pierre Lescot (1515), Paul Reynaud (1878), and Jacques Anquetil (1934). After her are Bertrada of Laon (720), Arnaut Daniel (1150), Pierre Janssen (1824), Bruno Cremer (1929), Alain-René Lesage (1668), and Léon Gambetta (1838).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In France

Among photographers born in France, Dora Maar ranks 4. Before her are Nadar (1820), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), and Robert Doisneau (1912). After her are Elliott Erwitt (1928), Claude Cahun (1894), Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894), Hippolyte Bayard (1801), André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819), Patrick Demarchelier (1943), Sophie Calle (1953), and Étienne Carjat (1828).

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