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Marcel Broodthaers

1924 - 1976

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Marcel Broodthaers (28 January 1924 – 28 January 1976) was a Belgian poet, filmmaker, and visual artist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Broodthaers has received more than 165,109 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Marcel Broodthaers is the 1,037th most popular painter (down from 882nd in 2019), the 369th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 315th in 2019) and the 71st most popular Belgian Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Marcel Broodthaers ranks 1,037 out of 2,023. Before him are Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, Laurent de La Hyre, Adriaen van der Werff, George Frederic Watts, Benjamin West, and Anne Vallayer-Coster. After him are Georges Mathieu, Otto Freundlich, Jean-Baptiste Debret, Gabriel von Max, Simone Peterzano, and Li Tang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Marcel Broodthaers ranks 166. Before him are Billy Wright, Michel Constantin, Abderrahmane Youssoufi, Alexander Matrosov, Friaça, and Gilbert Simondon. After him are Aman Andom, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Cicely Tyson, Marjorie Boulton, Josef Škvorecký, and Guillermo Rodríguez. Among people deceased in 1976, Marcel Broodthaers ranks 101. Before him are Tommy Bolin, Evert Taube, Wilhelm Marschall, Wilder Penfield, Paul Robeson, and Alexander Novikov. After him are Jack Cassidy, Karl Schäfer, Mohammed Ben Aarafa, Pyotr Koshevoy, Paul Gallico, and E. H. Shepard.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Marcel Broodthaers ranks 369 out of 1,190. Before him are Léon Scieur (1888), Edgar P. Jacobs (1904), Arnulf, Count of Holland (951), Lambert Lombard (1505), Pierre Harmel (1911), and Jean Ray (1887). After him are Joseph Jongen (1873), Lucas van Valckenborch (1535), Gaston Reiff (1921), Wilfried Van Moer (1945), José van Dam (1940), and Hubert Van Innis (1866).

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Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Marcel Broodthaers ranks 71. Before him are Jan Porcellis (1583), Hendrick van Balen the Elder (1570), Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts (1630), Jan Sanders van Hemessen (1500), David Teniers the Elder (1582), and Gaspar de Crayer (1584). After him are Lucas van Valckenborch (1535), Aelbrecht Bouts (1450), Erasmus Quellinus the Younger (1607), Jan Wildens (1586), Joris Hoefnagel (1542), and Joachim Beuckelaer (1533).

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