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Eugène Atget

1857 - 1927

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Eugène Atget (French: [adʒɛ]; 12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French flâneur and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. Most of his photographs were first published by Berenice Abbott after his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugène Atget has received more than 341,848 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Eugène Atget is the 387th most popular painter (up from 446th in 2019), the 1,274th most popular biography from France (up from 1,373rd in 2019) and the 86th most popular French Painter.

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Among painters, Eugène Atget ranks 387 out of 1,421. Before him are Armand Guillaumin, Grandma Moses, Adam Elsheimer, Dosso Dossi, Melozzo da Forlì, and Édouard Vuillard. After him are William Holman Hunt, Lyonel Feininger, Georg Baselitz, Fernand Khnopff, Frederic Leighton, and Giambattista Pittoni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Eugène Atget ranks 36. Before him are Karl Pearson, Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, Aleksandr Lyapunov, Otto von Below, Vladimir Bekhterev, and Edward Emerson Barnard. After him are Max Klinger, 12th Dalai Lama, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, Wilhelm Johannsen, Theodor Escherich, and Cécile Chaminade. Among people deceased in 1927, Eugène Atget ranks 23. Before him are Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Jerome K. Jerome, Paul Sérusier, Adolph Joffe, Armand Guillaumin, and Vladimir Bekhterev. After him are Yusef of Morocco, Wilhelm Johannsen, Max Hoffmann, Enrique Simonet, Shote Galica, and Li Dazhao.

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In France

Among people born in France, Eugène Atget ranks 1,274 out of 6,011. Before him are Sigebert II (602), Emmanuel Mounier (1905), Édouard Vuillard (1868), Vanessa Paradis (1972), Stéphane Grappelli (1908), and Jean Giraudoux (1882). After him are Aimé Bonpland (1773), André Michelin (1853), Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary (1158), Maurice Thorez (1900), Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (1435), and Pierre Larousse (1817).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Eugène Atget ranks 86. Before him are Paul Sérusier (1864), Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767), André Masson (1896), Marie Laurencin (1883), Armand Guillaumin (1841), and Édouard Vuillard (1868). After him are Jean-Marc Nattier (1685), Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827), François Clouet (1510), Jules Chéret (1836), Albert Marquet (1875), and André Lhote (1885).

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