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Jean Dubuffet

1901 - 1985

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Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor of the Ecole de Paris (School of Paris). His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. He is perhaps best known for founding the art movement art brut, and for the collection of works—Collection de l'art brut—that this movement spawned. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Dubuffet has received more than 565,259 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Jean Dubuffet is the 145th most popular painter (up from 195th in 2019), the 464th most popular biography from France (up from 634th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular French Painter.

Jean Dubuffet was an artist who is most famous for his paintings and sculptures. He was born in 1901 in Le Havre, France. He was the son of a wine merchant and was educated in Paris. He was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. His work is often classified as Outsider Art.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jean Dubuffet ranks 145 out of 1,421Before him are Pontormo, Jean Fouquet, Théodore Rousseau, André Derain, Alexandre Cabanel, and Robert Campin. After him are Hugo van der Goes, Fernando Botero, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Filippino Lippi, Otto Dix, and Lavinia Fontana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Jean Dubuffet ranks 26Before him are Vittorio De Sica, André Malraux, Princess Märtha of Sweden, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Joaquín Rodrigo, and Margaret Mead. After him are Simon Kuznets, Max Euwe, Andrey Vlasov, Milton H. Erickson, Witold Pilecki, and Mohamed Naguib. Among people deceased in 1985, Jean Dubuffet ranks 15Before him are Italo Calvino, László Bíró, Simone Signoret, Rock Hudson, Charles Francis Richter, and Dian Fossey. After him are Simon Kuznets, Lon Nol, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Philip Larkin, Anne Baxter, and John Franklin Enders.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Dubuffet ranks 464 out of 6,011Before him are Robert Campin (1375), Adolphe Adam (1803), Louis, Dauphin of France (1729), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Roger Vadim (1928), and François-Noël Babeuf (1760). After him are Paul Bocuse (1926), Camille Desmoulins (1760), Gabriel Marcel (1889), Charles Messier (1730), Jacques Le Goff (1924), and Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928).

Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jean Dubuffet ranks 43Before him are Fernand Léger (1881), Jean Fouquet (1420), Théodore Rousseau (1812), André Derain (1880), Alexandre Cabanel (1823), and Robert Campin (1375). After him are Maurice Utrillo (1883), Frédéric Bazille (1841), Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824), Eugène Boudin (1824), Niki de Saint Phalle (1930), and Maurice de Vlaminck (1876).