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Kurt Westergaard

1935 - 2021

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Kurt Westergaard (born Kurt Vestergaard; 13 July 1935 – 14 July 2021) was a Danish cartoonist. In 2005 he drew a cartoon of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, wearing a bomb in his turban as a part of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, which triggered several assassinations and murders committed by Muslim extremists around the world, diplomatic conflicts, and state-organized riots and attacks on Western embassies with several dead in Muslim countries. After the drawing of the cartoon, Westergaard received numerous death threats and was a target of assassination attempts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Westergaard has received more than 325,183 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Kurt Westergaard is the 807th most popular painter (down from 498th in 2019), the 214th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 144th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Danish Painter.

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  • 330k

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  • 55.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Kurt Westergaard ranks 807 out of 2,023. Before him are Wen Zhengming, Jan Kupecký, Alvise Vivarini, Dorothea Tanning, Jacques Villon, and Philip de László. After him are Konstantin Korovin, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Frans Floris, Bada Shanren, Abraham Janssens, and Ogata Kōrin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Kurt Westergaard ranks 131. Before him are Sergei Khrushchev, Richard Brautigan, Franco Citti, Lyudmila Chernykh, Djamila Bouhired, and Dominique Venner. After him are Samak Sundaravej, Peter Boyle, Akgün Kaçmaz, Orlando Peçanha, Esther Vilar, and Wang Hongwen. Among people deceased in 2021, Kurt Westergaard ranks 150. Before him are Robert Downey Sr., Vladimir Shatalov, Ned Beatty, Borisav Jović, Kåre Willoch, and George Shultz. After him are Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Dilip Kumar, Nelson Freire, Igor Oistrakh, El Risitas, and Elgin Baylor.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Kurt Westergaard ranks 214 out of 1,032. Before him are Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark (1747), Marie Krøyer (1867), Søren Lerby (1958), Henning Larsen (1925), Jacob Gade (1879), and Rorik of Dorestad (900). After him are Princess Caroline of Denmark (1793), Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1798), King Diamond (1956), Peter Andreas Hansen (1795), Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden (1768), and Herman Bang (1857).

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Among PAINTERS In Denmark

Among painters born in Denmark, Kurt Westergaard ranks 13. Before him are Asger Jorn (1914), Michael Ancher (1849), Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783), Carl Bloch (1834), Jens Juel (1745), and Marie Krøyer (1867). After him are Wilhelm Marstrand (1810), Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859), Christen Købke (1810), Paul Gustav Fischer (1860), Per Kirkeby (1938), and Laurits Tuxen (1853).

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