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Jan Matejko

1838 - 1893

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Jan Alojzy Matejko (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjan aˈlɔjzɨ maˈtɛjkɔ] ; also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works include large scale oil paintings such as Stańczyk (1862), Rejtan (1866), Union of Lublin (1869), Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (1873), or Battle of Grunwald (1878). He was the author of numerous portraits, a gallery of Polish monarchs in book form, and murals in St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Matejko has received more than 569,452 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Jan Matejko is the 226th most popular painter (up from 283rd in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from Poland (up from 145th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Painter.

Jan Matejko was a Polish painter and sculptor. He is most famous for his paintings of the history of Poland.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.33

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jan Matejko ranks 226 out of 1,421. Before him are George Grosz, Aristide Maillol, Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Bernardo Bellotto, Jacopo Bellini, and Raoul Dufy. After him are Ferdinand Hodler, Luca Giordano, Charles-François Daubigny, Giacomo Balla, John Everett Millais, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Jan Matejko ranks 9. Before him are Ernst Mach, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Max Bruch, Franz Brentano, Tobias Asser, and Luís I of Portugal. After him are Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, Ernest Solvay, Émile Loubet, Léon Gambetta, Yamagata Aritomo, and Princess Louise of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1893, Jan Matejko ranks 9. Before him are Charles Gounod, Patrice de MacMahon, Hippolyte Taine, Jean-Martin Charcot, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Alexander of Battenberg. After him are Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Josef Stefan, Jules Ferry, Ernst Kummer, John Tyndall, and George Tupou I.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Matejko ranks 117 out of 1,454. Before him are Henryk Wieniawski (1835), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Angelus Silesius (1624), Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755), Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860), and Edward Sapir (1884). After him are Mieszko I of Poland (940), Rochus Misch (1917), Alexander Jagiellon (1461), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Otto Liman von Sanders (1855), and Władysław Sikorski (1881).

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Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Jan Matejko ranks 3. Before him are Tamara de Lempicka (1898) and Zdzisław Beksiński (1929). After him are Aleksandra Ekster (1882), Moïse Kisling (1891), Hans Bellmer (1902), Otto Mueller (1874), Tadeusz Kantor (1915), Jacek Malczewski (1854), Józef Brandt (1841), Olga Boznańska (1865), and Daniel Chodowiecki (1726).

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