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Joseph Kosuth

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Joseph Kosuth (; born January 31, 1945) is an American conceptual artist, who lives in New York and Venice, after having resided in various cities in Europe, including London, Ghent and Rome. Born in Toledo, Ohio, Kosuth had an American mother and a Hungarian father. (A relative, Lajos Kossuth, achieved notability for his role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.) Joseph Kosuth attended the Toledo Museum School of Design from 1955 to 1962 and studied privately under the Belgian painter Line Bloom Draper. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Kosuth has received more than 286,771 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Kosuth is the 405th most popular painter (down from 373rd in 2019), the 1,309th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,272nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Painter.

Joseph Kosuth is most famous for his work in conceptual art and installation art. He is best known for his "One and Three Chairs" installation, which was created in 1969.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Joseph Kosuth ranks 405 out of 2,023. Before him are Max Klinger, Shitao, Eva Gonzalès, Asger Jorn, Tom of Finland, and Andrea Solari. After him are John Bauer, Jean-Étienne Liotard, Vasily Perov, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, and Pietro Cavallini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Joseph Kosuth ranks 71. Before him are Ken Hensley, Carmen Maura, Haris Silajdžić, Dennis Rader, Joël Robuchon, and Yochanan Vollach. After him are Graça Machel, Linda Lee Cadwell, Micheline Calmy-Rey, Dirk Benedict, Maud Adams, and Milo Manara.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Kosuth ranks 1,309 out of 20,380. Before him are Chyna (1969), William Randolph Hearst (1863), Chris Columbus (1958), Owen Wilson (1968), Dionne Warwick (1940), and Philip Johnson (1906). After him are Wallace Carothers (1896), Norman Mailer (1923), Angela Bassett (1958), Kathleen Turner (1954), Thomas Burke (1875), and Gene Tierney (1920).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Joseph Kosuth ranks 11. Before him are Georgia O'Keeffe (1887), Grant Wood (1891), Richard Serra (1939), Norman Rockwell (1894), Robert Rauschenberg (1925), and Frederic Edwin Church (1826). After him are James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834), Bob Ross (1942), Lyonel Feininger (1871), Sol LeWitt (1928), Margaret Keane (1927), and Jasper Johns (1930).

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