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Edward Steichen

1879 - 1973

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Edward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter and curator and a pioneer of fashion photography. His gown images for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911 were the first modern fashion photographs to be published. From 1923 to 1938, Steichen served as chief photographer for the Condé Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair, while also working for many advertising agencies, including J. Walter Thompson. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Steichen has received more than 706,740 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Edward Steichen is the 557th most popular painter (down from 494th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Luxembourg (up from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Luxembourger Painter.

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Edward Steichen ranks 557 out of 2,023. Before him are Carlo Maratta, Pietro Longhi, Yoshitoshi, Ivan Bilibin, Margaret Keane, and Théophile Steinlen. After him are Leonor Fini, Salomon van Ruysdael, John Tenniel, Michael Pacher, Peter von Cornelius, and Fernand Khnopff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Edward Steichen ranks 53. Before him are Marius Jacob, Paul Poiret, Ethel Barrymore, Max Schreck, Huda Sha'arawi, and Bedřich Hrozný. After him are Kartini, Max Emmerich, Hisaichi Terauchi, Alfred Korzybski, Nikolai Medtner, and Margaret Sanger. Among people deceased in 1973, Edward Steichen ranks 63. Before him are Otto Klemperer, Adolf Strauss, Karl Löwith, Milunka Savić, Robert Siodmak, and Károly Kerényi. After him are E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Sessue Hayakawa, Robert Smithson, Soong Ai-ling, Katina Paxinou, and Alan Watts.

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In Luxembourg

Among people born in Luxembourg, Edward Steichen ranks 14 out of 95. Before him are Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1921), Jules A. Hoffmann (1941), Ernst von Mansfeld (1580), Gaston Thorn (1928), Hugo Gernsback (1884), and Joseph Bech (1887). After him are Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1894), Charly Gaul (1932), Louis Pilot (1940), Nicolas Frantz (1899), Baldwin of Luxembourg (1285), and Hermann von François (1856).

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Among PAINTERS In Luxembourg

Among painters born in Luxembourg, Edward Steichen ranks 1. After him are Jean Jacoby (1891).

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