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H. R. Giger

1940 - 2014

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Hans Ruedi Giger ( GHEE-gər; German: [ˈɡiːɡər]; 5 February 1940 – 12 May 2014) was a Swiss artist best known for his airbrushed images that blended human physiques with machines, an art style known as "biomechanical". He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for the visual design of Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien, and was responsible for creating the titular Alien itself. His work is on permanent display at the H.R. Giger Museum in Gruyères, Switzerland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of H. R. Giger has received more than 4,026,860 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). H. R. Giger is the 214th most popular painter (up from 216th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 56th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Painter.

H.R. Giger is most famous for his artwork in the movie Alien.

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  • 65.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, H. R. Giger ranks 214 out of 2,023. Before him are John Everett Millais, Georgia O'Keeffe, Dieric Bouts, Paul Delvaux, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and Antoine-Jean Gros. After him are Pierre Bonnard, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Petrus Christus, Rosso Fiorentino, and Saskia van Uylenburgh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, H. R. Giger ranks 44. Before him are Terry Gilliam, Dario Argento, Abdurrahman Wahid, Tabaré Vázquez, Julie Christie, and Paolo Borsellino. After him are Andrzej Żuławski, Denis Law, Mina, Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Patrick Stewart, and Nancy Pelosi. Among people deceased in 2014, H. R. Giger ranks 26. Before him are Shirley Temple, Virna Lisi, Alain Resnais, Bob Hoskins, Queen Fabiola of Belgium, and Richard Attenborough. After him are Harold Ramis, Richard Kiel, Gary Becker, Martin Lewis Perl, Adolfo Suárez, and Lorin Maazel.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, H. R. Giger ranks 60 out of 1,015. Before him are Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Gabriel Cramer (1704), Albert I of Germany (1255), Michel Mayor (1942), Aga Khan IV (1936), and Paul Hermann Müller (1899). After him are Daniel Bovet (1907), Emil Jannings (1884), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Hans Küng (1928), Siegfried Wagner (1869), and Ferdinand Hodler (1853).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, H. R. Giger ranks 6. Before him are Paul Klee (1879), Arnold Böcklin (1827), Angelica Kauffman (1741), Johannes Itten (1888), and Henry Fuseli (1741). After him are Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Félix Vallotton (1865), Albert Anker (1831), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Matthäus Merian (1593), and Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889).

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