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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

1875 - 1911

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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (Polish: Mikołaj Konstanty Czurlanis; 22 September [O.S. 10 September] 1875 – 10 April [O.S. 28 March] 1911) was a Lithuanian composer, painter, choirmaster, cultural figure, and writer in Polish.Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and art nouveau, and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch. He has been considered one of the pioneers of abstract art in Europe. During his short life, he composed about 400 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings, as well as many literary works and poems. The majority of his paintings are housed in the M. K. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis has received more than 343,840 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis is the 211th most popular painter (up from 255th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 17th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Painter.

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis is most famous for his symphonic poem, "The Seasons," which he composed in 1904. Čiurlionis was born in 1875 and died in 1911.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis ranks 211 out of 1,421Before him are Zdzisław Beksiński, Giorgio Morandi, Natalia Goncharova, Piero di Cosimo, Carel Fabritius, and Antonio del Pollaiolo. After him are Pinturicchio, Joaquín Sorolla, Lorenzo di Credi, Gerard van Honthorst, H. R. Giger, and Joshua Reynolds.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis ranks 19Before him are Albert I of Belgium, Mikhail Kalinin, Marie of Romania, Vallabhbhai Patel, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Gilbert N. Lewis. After him are Fritz Kreisler, Henry Hallett Dale, Paul Landowski, Giovanni Gentile, Antonio Machado, and John Buchan. Among people deceased in 1911, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis ranks 9Before him are Wilhelm Dilthey, Francis Galton, Alfred Binet, Joseph Pulitzer, Pyotr Stolypin, and Paul Lafargue. After him are Georg Jellinek, Emilio Salgari, Valentin Serov, Maria Pia of Savoy, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg, and Edward Whymper.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis ranks 16 out of 287Before him are Emma Goldman (1869), Hermann Minkowski (1864), César Cui (1835), Pyotr Wrangel (1878), Kęstutis (1297), and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858). After him are Petr Shelokhonov (1929), Antanas Smetona (1874), Jascha Heifetz (1901), Barbara Radziwiłł (1520), Marija Gimbutas (1921), and Vytautas Landsbergis (1932).

Among PAINTERS In Lithuania

Among painters born in Lithuania, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis ranks 1After him are Isaac Levitan (1860), Jacques Lipchitz (1891), George Maciunas (1931), Varvara Stepanova (1894), Yehuda Pen (1854), Stanisław Witkiewicz (1851), Lasar Segall (1891), Ben Shahn (1898), and Michał Elwiro Andriolli (1836).