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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 265,548 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Nicolas de Staël is the 622nd most popular painter (down from 572nd in 2019), the 565th most popular biography from Russia (down from 544th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Russian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Nicolas de Staël ranks 622 out of 2,023. Before him are Wenceslaus Hollar, Christian Boltanski, Melchior Broederlam, Wifredo Lam, Pierre Soulages, and Carl Andre. After him are Tom Wesselmann, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Otto van Veen, Domenico Fetti, and John Frederick Kensett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Nicolas de Staël ranks 80. Before him are Felice Borel, Agostino Casaroli, Dürrüşehvar Sultan, Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Pietro Germi, and Archduchess Adelheid of Austria. After him are Yakov Zeldovich, Demetrios I of Constantinople, Arthur Kennedy, Martin Gardner, Richard Basehart, and Bernard Malamud. Among people deceased in 1955, Nicolas de Staël ranks 45. Before him are Yves Tanguy, Theda Bara, Henri Delaunay, Emmett Till, Olga Khokhlova, and Otto Braun. After him are Eugène Joseph Delporte, Archie Hahn, Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein, Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, Manuel Ávila Camacho, and Pierre Levegh.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nicolas de Staël ranks 565 out of 3,761. Before him are Xenia of Saint Petersburg (1719), Lauri Kristian Relander (1883), Konstantin Simonov (1915), Valery Gergiev (1953), Otto Braun (1872), and Roza Shanina (1924). After him are Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (1835), Uliana of Tver (1325), Matvei Zakharov (1898), Nikolai Medtner (1879), Yury Solomin (1935), and Eldar Ryazanov (1927).

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Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Nicolas de Staël ranks 22. Before him are Mikhail Vrubel (1856), Lyubov Popova (1889), Vasily Surikov (1848), Ivan Bilibin (1876), Konstantin Makovsky (1839), and Martiros Saryan (1880). After him are Boris Kustodiev (1878), Jean Béraud (1849), Nikolai Ge (1831), Mikhail Nesterov (1862), Viktor Hartmann (1834), and Alexei Savrasov (1830).

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