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Marlene Dumas

1953 - Today

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Marlene Dumas (born 3 August 1953) is a South African artist and painter currently based in the Netherlands. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marlene Dumas has received more than 264,536 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Marlene Dumas is the 1,152nd most popular painter (up from 1,209th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from South Africa (up from 73rd in 2019) and the most popular South African Painter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 260k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Marlene Dumas ranks 1,152 out of 1,421Before her are Maruyama Ōkyo, Auguste Couder, Roger Fry, Corneille de Lyon, Giottino, and George Segal. After her are Georg Pencz, Carlo Cignani, Carl Moll, Joseph Cornell, Ilya Glazunov, and Serge Poliakoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Marlene Dumas ranks 144Before her are Maurizio Malvestiti, Sergio Castellitto, Kathleen Kennedy, Franz Klammer, Arielle Dombasle, and Hussein Arnous. After her are Pamela Sue Martin, Paul Haggis, Billy Sheehan, Robert Parish, Klaus Wowereit, and Jane Badler.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Marlene Dumas ranks 52 out of 374Before her are Rory Byrne (1944), Jamie Uys (1921), Dave Matthews (1967), Christiaan de Wet (1854), Glynis Johns (1923), and Oscar Pistorius (1986). After her are Alice Krige (1954), C. R. Swart (1894), Esther Brand (1922), Cyril Cusack (1910), Trevor Jones (1949), and Piet Joubert (1834).

Among PAINTERS In South Africa

Among painters born in South Africa, Marlene Dumas ranks 1After her are William Kentridge (1955) and Maggie Laubser (1886).