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Jean Metzinger

1883 - 1956

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Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (French: [mɛtsɛ̃ʒe]; 24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism. His earliest works, from 1900 to 1904, were influenced by the neo-Impressionism of Georges Seurat and Henri-Edmond Cross. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Metzinger has received more than 515,061 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Jean Metzinger is the 788th most popular painter (up from 850th in 2019), the 2,298th most popular biography from France (up from 2,497th in 2019) and the 147th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jean Metzinger ranks 788 out of 2,023Before him are Agatharchus, Xia Gui, Karel Dujardin, Emanuel de Witte, Bartolomeo Montagna, and Yun Shouping. After him are Willem van de Velde the Younger, Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze, Félix Ziem, Ercole de' Roberti, Marie Krøyer, and Esaias van de Velde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Jean Metzinger ranks 92Before him are Leonid Kulik, Bertram Ramsay, Edgard Varèse, Joseph Stilwell, Hermann Abendroth, and Hasui Kawase. After him are Henk Sneevliet, Dmitry Manuilsky, Rudolf Weigl, Rudolf Spielmann, Isaak Brodsky, and Richard Gerstl. Among people deceased in 1956, Jean Metzinger ranks 71Before him are Alexander Korda, Erhard Raus, Lev Rudnev, Alexander Fadeyev, Ludwig Klages, and Hermann Abendroth. After him are Julien Benda, Jimmie Angel, Ernst Robert Curtius, Johann Radon, Guido Cantelli, and Mikheil Gelovani.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Metzinger ranks 2,298 out of 6,770Before him are Jean Paulhan (1884), Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579), Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771), Charles de Lannoy, 1st Prince of Sulmona (1487), Maurice René Fréchet (1878), and Alain Robert (1962). After him are Jacques de Morgan (1857), Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756), Julien Benda (1867), Pierre de Castelnau (1170), Christian-Jaque (1904), and Ginette Neveu (1919).

Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jean Metzinger ranks 147Before him are Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684), Eugène Fromentin (1820), Léon Cogniet (1794), Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823), Achille Devéria (1800), and François-André Vincent (1746). After him are Félix Ziem (1821), Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686), Jacques Villon (1875), Jean François de Troy (1679), Louis Anquetin (1861), and Jean Fautrier (1898).