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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 358,416 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Eugène Atget is the 488th most popular painter (down from 386th in 2019), the 1,496th most popular biography from France (down from 1,270th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Eugène Atget ranks 488 out of 2,023. Before him are Mattia Preti, Hugo Simberg, Giuseppe Cesari, Rachel Ruysch, Jan van Scorel, and Jan Davidsz. de Heem. After him are Paloma Picasso, Roelant Savery, Moïse Kisling, Tsuguharu Foujita, Richard Hamilton, and Philips Wouwerman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Eugène Atget ranks 42. Before him are Georges Gilles de la Tourette, 12th Dalai Lama, Antoni Grabowski, Ida Tarbell, Cécile Chaminade, and Wilhelm Johannsen. After him are Theodor Escherich, Vladimir Bekhterev, Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden, Mikhail Alekseyev, Émile Coué, and Christian Michelsen. Among people deceased in 1927, Eugène Atget ranks 30. Before him are Adolph Joffe, Enrique Simonet, Saad Zaghloul, Michael Ancher, Louise Abbéma, and Wilhelm Johannsen. After him are Vladimir Bekhterev, Vilhelm Thomsen, Sisowath of Cambodia, James Oliver Curwood, Shote Galica, and Sergey Sazonov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Eugène Atget ranks 1,496 out of 6,770. Before him are Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia (1909), Fulk III, Count of Anjou (970), Henri, Count of Paris (1908), Yolande of Valois (1434), François Louis, Prince of Conti (1664), and Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709). After him are Michel Chasles (1793), René Just Haüy (1743), Paloma Picasso (1949), Bernard Courtois (1777), Sextus Afranius Burrus (1), and Jean Tirole (1953).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Eugène Atget ranks 102. Before him are Ernest Meissonier (1815), James Tissot (1836), Pierre Puget (1620), Louise Abbéma (1853), Jean Clouet (1480), and André Lhote (1885). After him are Paloma Picasso (1949), Hubert Robert (1733), Arman (1928), Séraphine Louis (1864), Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836), and Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807).

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