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Lucio Fontana

1899 - 1968

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Lucio Fontana (Italian: [ˈluːtʃo fonˈtaːna]; 19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor and theorist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lucio Fontana has received more than 368,890 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Lucio Fontana is the 324th most popular painter (up from 361st in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Argentina (up from 39th in 2019) and the most popular Argentinean Painter.

Lucio Fontana is most famous for his "Concetto Spaziale" series of paintings, which are large, white, irregular shaped canvases with perforations in them.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Lucio Fontana ranks 324 out of 1,421. Before him are Séraphine Louis, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Pietro Cavallini, Léon Bonnat, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, and Jan Gossaert. After him are Émile Bernard, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Gabriël Metsu, Willem Claesz. Heda, Daniele da Volterra, and Vasily Vereshchagin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Lucio Fontana ranks 37. Before him are Max Theiler, Alfred Schütz, Ferhat Abbas, Georg von Békésy, Emma Morano, and Bronislav Kaminski. After him are Chang Myon, Charles Laughton, James Cagney, Suzanne Lenglen, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, and Ludwig Guttmann. Among people deceased in 1968, Lucio Fontana ranks 32. Before him are Pitirim Sorokin, Kirill Meretskov, José Nasazzi, Giovanni Messe, Alexandre Kojève, and Ivan Ribar. After him are Vasily Sokolovsky, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Alice Guy-Blaché, Romano Guardini, Josef Harpe, and Vittorio Pozzo.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Lucio Fontana ranks 32 out of 1,019. Before him are Helenio Herrera (1910), Diego Simeone (1970), Richard Walther Darré (1895), César Luis Menotti (1938), Néstor Kirchner (1950), and Daniel Passarella (1953). After him are Héctor Cúper (1955), Violet Jessop (1887), Alberto Granado (1922), César Pelli (1926), Ernesto Sabato (1911), and Reynaldo Bignone (1928).

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Among PAINTERS In Argentina

Among painters born in Argentina, Lucio Fontana ranks 1. After him are Leonor Fini (1907) and Antonio Berni (1905).

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