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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 1,712,815 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Louise Bourgeois is the 38th most popular sculptor (down from 33rd in 2019), the 1,013th most popular biography from France (up from 1,038th in 2019) and the 10th 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 38 out of 258. Before her are Claus Sluter, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Jacopo della Quercia, Ossip Zadkine, Alexander Archipenko, and Jean Tinguely. After her are Ivan Meštrović, Józef Gosławski, César Manrique, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Alcamenes, and Veit Stoss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Louise Bourgeois ranks 43. Before her are Max Frisch, Odysseas Elytis, Trygve Haavelmo, Ernesto Sabato, John Archibald Wheeler, and Herta Oberheuser. After her are Richard Baer, L. Ron Hubbard, Bruno Kreisky, Sergey Sokolov, Gustav Wagner, and Cantinflas. Among people deceased in 2010, Louise Bourgeois ranks 30. Before her are Bruno Cremer, Alois Brunner, Dino De Laurentiis, Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Viktor Chernomyrdin, and Harry Mulisch. After her are Stjepan Bobek, Miep Gies, Algirdas Brazauskas, Alice Miller, Vladimir Arnold, and Henryk Górecki.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louise Bourgeois ranks 1,013 out of 6,770. Before her are Raymond Poulidor (1936), Claude Louis Hector de Villars (1653), Nicolas Chauvin (1790), Julien Green (1900), Louis II of Anjou (1377), and Gérard Mourou (1944). After her are Eugène Scribe (1791), Villard de Honnecourt (1200), Agnes of Poitou (1025), Tetricus I (250), Raymond of Poitiers (1115), and Louis Malle (1932).

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Among SCULPTORS In France

Among sculptors born in France, Louise Bourgeois ranks 10. Before her are Giambologna (1529), Marie Tussaud (1761), Paul Landowski (1875), Rosa Bonheur (1822), Antoine Bourdelle (1861), and Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741). After her are François Rude (1784), Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716), Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714), François Girardon (1628), David d'Angers (1788), and Jean Goujon (1510).

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