PAINTER

Leonardus Nardus

1868 - 1955

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Leonardus Nardus (5 May 1868 – 12 June 1955) was a Dutch fencer, impressionist painter and art collector of Jewish origin whose considerable collection was looted by the Nazis. He won a bronze medal in the team épée event at the 1912 Summer Olympics. Nardus had connections to the chess world as well.During the 1890s and early 1900s Nardus gained an alarming reputation for his work as an art dealer in the United States, operating primarily out of New York and Philadelphia. Nardus swindled American millionaires such as Peter Arrell Brown Widener by selling for extraordinarily high prices relatively worthless pictures as landmarks of Western Art, under what Widener later described in a distraught personal letter as “gross false pretenses.” Nardus was unmasked as a swindler in 1908 by the art connoisseurs Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, Bernard Berenson, Wilhelm Valentiner and Roger Fry, but the incident was kept (mostly) quiet at the time because Nardus’s wealthy clients, including J.P. Morgan and the influential Philadelphia corporation lawyer John G. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonardus Nardus has received more than 9,637 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Leonardus Nardus is the 1,678th most popular painter (down from 1,425th in 2019), the 698th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 590th in 2019) and the 147th most popular Dutch Painter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 9.6k

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  • 48.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Leonardus Nardus has had the most page views in the with 1,287 views, followed by Dutch (669), and French (627). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Galician (75.12%), Danish (60.22%), and Egyptian Arabic (17.99%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Leonardus Nardus ranks 1,678 out of 2,023. Before him are Jacob Maris, Eugene Lanceray, Daniel Seghers, Valentine Hugo, Julius Hübner, and Harald Sohlberg. After him are Fanny Churberg, Julian Fałat, Else Alfelt, John McCrae, Hendrik Voogd, and Victor Meirelles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Leonardus Nardus ranks 155. Before him are Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, Ștefan Luchian, Gustav Mie, Richard Teichmann, Heinrich Schenker, and Prosper Poullet. After him are Federico Tinoco Granados, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Maria Andreyeva, Heinrich Held, Emilie Snethlage, and José Vianna da Motta. Among people deceased in 1955, Leonardus Nardus ranks 122. Before him are Clemente Biondetti, Hamida Javanshir, Ramón Muttis, Alice Joyce, Tom Moore, and Margaret Abbott. After him are James Agee, František Janda-Suk, Fumio Hayasaka, Johannes de Jong, Tommy Burns, and Constantin Argetoianu.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Leonardus Nardus ranks 698 out of 1,646. Before him are Bart Berman (1938), Boudewijn Zenden (1976), Leen Vente (1911), Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920), Jacob Maris (1837), and Jan Lammers (1956). After him are Antonius van den Broek (1870), Dries van der Lof (1919), Michel de Klerk (1884), Joep Lange (1954), Job Cohen (1947), and Hendrik Voogd (1768).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Leonardus Nardus ranks 147. Before him are Jan van Bijlert (1597), Dirck Barendsz (1534), Nicolaas Pieneman (1809), Reinier Nooms (1623), Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920), and Jacob Maris (1837). After him are Hendrik Voogd (1768), Thérèse Schwartze (1851), Pieter de Grebber (1600), Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh (null), Louis Meijer (1809), and Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876).

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