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Joaquín Torres-García

1874 - 1949

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Joaquín Torres-García (28 July 1874 – 8 August 1949) was a prominent Uruguayan-Spanish artist, theorist, and author, renowned for his international impact in the modern art world. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, his family moved to Catalonia, Spain, where his artistic journey began. His career spanned several countries including Spain, New York, Italy, France, and Uruguay. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joaquín Torres-García has received more than 138,842 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Joaquín Torres-García is the 1,070th most popular painter (down from 1,031st in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Uruguay (down from 59th in 2019) and the most popular Uruguayan Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Joaquín Torres-García ranks 1,070 out of 2,023. Before him are Davide Ghirlandaio, Joris Hoefnagel, Elin Danielson-Gambogi, Joachim Beuckelaer, Mykola Pymonenko, and Nicolas-Jacques Conté. After him are Barbara Kruger, Agnes Block, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Wilhelm Leibl, Plautilla Nelli, and Massimo Stanzione.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Joaquín Torres-García ranks 95. Before him are Wincenty Witos, George Tupou II, Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Jirō Minami, Eugen Fischer, and François Coty. After him are Constantin Ion Parhon, Romaine Brooks, Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, William Foulke, Lou Henry Hoover, and Nicolae Rădescu. Among people deceased in 1949, Joaquín Torres-García ranks 79. Before him are Sam Wood, Carlo Galetti, Josep Maria Jujol, Nuri Killigil, Othon Friesz, and Ivan Poddubny. After him are Infanta Blanca of Spain, Lead Belly, Amadeo Giannini, James Forrestal, Vyacheslav Ivanov, and Kanji Ishiwara.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Joaquín Torres-García ranks 62 out of 444. Before him are Juan López Fontana (1908), Schubert Gambetta (1920), Jules Supervielle (1884), Diego Godín (1986), Lucía Topolansky (1944), and Gustavo Rojo (1923). After him are Eusebio Tejera (1922), Gregorio Conrado Álvarez (1925), Víctor Rodríguez Andrade (1927), Aparicio Méndez (1904), Delmira Agustini (1886), and Alfredo Foglino (1892).

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Among PAINTERS In Uruguay

Among painters born in Uruguay, Joaquín Torres-García ranks 1. After him are Juan Manuel Blanes (1830), and Pedro Figari (1861).

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