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Louise Bourgeois

1911 - 2010

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Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French: [lwiz buʁʒwa] ; 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louise Bourgeois has received more than 1,611,678 page views. Her biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Louise Bourgeois is the 33rd most popular sculptor (down from 25th in 2019), the 1,041st most popular biography from France (down from 782nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Sculptor.

Louise Bourgeois is most famous for her sculptures and drawings, which often explore themes of sexuality, femininity, and the body.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Louise Bourgeois ranks 33 out of 189. Before her are Antoine Bourdelle, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Ossip Zadkine, Alexander Archipenko, Jean Tinguely, and Alessandro Algardi. After her are Rosa Bonheur, Naum Gabo, Claes Oldenburg, Józef Gosławski, Claus Sluter, and Gustav Vigeland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Louise Bourgeois ranks 47. Before her are Trygve Haavelmo, J. L. Austin, Bernard Katz, Odysseas Elytis, Niels Kaj Jerne, and Cantinflas. After her are Vincent Price, Bruno Kreisky, Robert Taylor, Henri Troyat, Ernesto Sabato, and Karl Silberbauer. Among people deceased in 2010, Louise Bourgeois ranks 32. Before her are Miep Gies, Francesco Cossiga, Blake Edwards, Néstor Kirchner, Algirdas Brazauskas, and Paul Schäfer. After her are Bruno Cremer, Henryk Górecki, Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, Jean-Joseph Sanfourche, Alice Miller, and Joan Sutherland.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louise Bourgeois ranks 1,041 out of 6,011. Before her are Robert de Sorbon (1201), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Eugène Scribe (1791), Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), Séraphine Louis (1864), and Christian Clavier (1952). After her are Jean Vigo (1905), Jacques Clément (1567), Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (1346), Robert IV of Sablé (1150), Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry (1778), and Adélaïde of France (1732).

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Among SCULPTORS In France

Among sculptors born in France, Louise Bourgeois ranks 9. Before her are Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834), Giambologna (1529), Marie Tussaud (1761), Paul Landowski (1875), Antoine Bourdelle (1861), and Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741). After her are Rosa Bonheur (1822), François Rude (1784), Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716), Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714), David d'Angers (1788), and Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876).

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