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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 308,248 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Kurt Westergaard is the 499th most popular painter (up from 892nd in 2019), the 145th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 242nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Danish Painter.

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  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.39

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Kurt Westergaard ranks 499 out of 1,421. Before him are Leonor Fini, Pierre Auguste Cot, Edward Steichen, Sebastiano Ricci, Arman, and Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov. After him are Gu Kaizhi, Michael Wolgemut, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Guo Xi, Johan Jongkind, and Michael Ancher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Kurt Westergaard ranks 71. Before him are Elsa Martinelli, John G. Avildsen, Monique Wittig, Lee Remick, Sonny Bono, and Floyd Patterson. After him are Zhelyu Zhelev, Bent Larsen, Seiji Ozawa, António Ramalho Eanes, Gene Vincent, and Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. Among people deceased in 2021, Kurt Westergaard ranks 109. Before him are Tamara Press, Kjell Askildsen, David Yonggi Cho, Igor Oistrakh, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, and Christa Ludwig. After him are Toshihide Maskawa, Nino Castelnuovo, Stephen Sondheim, Djivan Gasparyan, Marion Ramsey, and Kenneth Kaunda.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Kurt Westergaard ranks 145 out of 893. Before him are Theophil Hansen (1813), Verner Panton (1926), Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg (1796), Charles I, Count of Flanders (1083), Hastein (810), and Olaf I of Denmark (1050). After him are Giancarlo Esposito (1958), Michael Ancher (1849), Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland (1456), Bent Larsen (1935), Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784), and Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt (1659).

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Among PAINTERS In Denmark

Among painters born in Denmark, Kurt Westergaard ranks 7. Before him are Lili Elbe (1882), Gerda Wegener (1886), Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark (1656), Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864), Nicolai Abildgaard (1743), and Anna Ancher (1859). After him are Michael Ancher (1849), Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783), Carl Bloch (1834), Asger Jorn (1914), Jens Juel (1745), and Marie Krøyer (1867).

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