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Nicolas de Staël

1914 - 1955

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Nicolas de Staël (French: [ni.kɔ.la də stal]; January 5, 1914 – March 16, 1955) was a French painter of Russian origin known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolas de Staël has received more than 250,033 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Nicolas de Staël is the 573rd most popular painter (up from 691st in 2019), the 545th most popular biography from Russia (up from 614th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Russian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Nicolas de Staël ranks 573 out of 1,421Before him are Max Pechstein, Hans Hartung, Melchior Broederlam, Théo van Rysselberghe, Jean Béraud, and Francesco Francia. After him are Pierre Alechinsky, Pompeo Batoni, Godfrey Kneller, Joseph Karl Stieler, Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, and Théophile Steinlen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Nicolas de Staël ranks 75Before him are Carlo Maria Giulini, Archduchess Adelheid of Austria, Asger Jorn, Lazar Koliševski, Akira Nozawa, and Yakov Zeldovich. After him are Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, Pavle, Serbian Patriarch, Shapour Bakhtiar, Larbi Benbarek, Eugene Nida, and Achille Compagnoni. Among people deceased in 1955, Nicolas de Staël ranks 45Before him are Alexandros Papagos, Léon Werth, Pierre Levegh, Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein, Theda Bara, and Max Pechstein. After him are Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, Henri Delaunay, Erich Brandenberger, Eugène Joseph Delporte, Manuel Ávila Camacho, and Kim Seong-su.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nicolas de Staël ranks 545 out of 3,262Before him are Vasily Degtyaryov (1880), Maria Miloslavskaya (1624), Anatoly Lyadov (1855), Jean Béraud (1849), Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826), and Ivan Ilyin (1883). After him are Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (1888), Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (1896), Tode Mongke (1282), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Mikhail Skobelev (1843), and Konstantin Makovsky (1839).

Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Nicolas de Staël ranks 23Before him are Vasily Surikov (1848), Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806), Ivan Bilibin (1876), Boris Kustodiev (1878), Martiros Saryan (1880), and Jean Béraud (1849). After him are Konstantin Makovsky (1839), Konstantin Korovin (1861), Viktor Hartmann (1834), Mikhail Nesterov (1862), Nikolai Ge (1831), and Alexei Savrasov (1830).