SCULPTOR

Nek Chand

1924 - 2015

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Nek Chand Saini (15 December 1924 – 12 June 2015) was a self-taught Indian artist, known for building the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, an eighteen-acre sculpture garden in the city of Chandigarh. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nek Chand has received more than 270,645 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Nek Chand is the 249th most popular sculptor (down from 216th in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 122nd in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Sculptor.

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  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Nek Chand ranks 249 out of 258. Before him are Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański, Cícero Moraes, Rebeca Matte Bello, Augusta Savage, Dale Chihuly, and Harriet Hosmer. After him are Anna Hyatt Huntington, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Ruth Asawa, Megumi Igarashi, Juan Garaizabal, and Enrique Cabrera.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Nek Chand ranks 466. Before him are Georges Dransart, Wally Cox, Paulo Muwanga, Jeremiah Denton, Joy Page, and Ron Staniforth. After him are William H. Gass, Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Terry Southern, Ivan Udodov, Tapan Sinha, and Louie Bellson. Among people deceased in 2015, Nek Chand ranks 459. Before him are Jiří Hledík, Miroslav Poljak, Kim Fowley, Josefa Francisco, Justin Wilson, and Abdelhamid Abaaoud. After him are Eduardo Bonvallet, Ernie Banks, Amelia Boynton Robinson, Marisa Del Frate, Hitoshi Saito, and Robert La Caze.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Nek Chand ranks 108 out of 217. Before him are Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (1902), Khusrau Mirza (1587), Kamini Kaushal (1927), Manorama (1926), Rab Butler (1902), and Sultan Rahi (1938). After him are Salima Ikram (1965), Iqbal Masih (1983), Sartaj Aziz (1929), Kulbhushan Kharbanda (1944), Yash Pal (1926), and Javed Iqbal (1961).

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Among SCULPTORS In Pakistan

Among sculptors born in Pakistan, Nek Chand ranks 1. 

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