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Nikifor

1895 - 1968

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Nikifor (21 May 1895, Krynica, Austria-Hungary – 10 October 1968, Folusz, Poland), also known as Nikifor Krynicki, born as Epifaniy Drovnyak (Epifaniusz Drowniak)1, was a Lemko naïve painter. Nikifor painted over 40,000 pictures – on sheets of paper, pages of notebooks, cigarette cartons, and even on scraps of paper glued together. The topics of his art include self-portraits and panoramas of Krynica, with its spas and Orthodox and Catholic churches. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikifor has received more than 84,437 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Nikifor is the 1,466th most popular painter (down from 1,338th in 2019), the 810th most popular biography from Poland (down from 766th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Polish Painter.

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  • 84k

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  • 50.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Nikifor ranks 1,466 out of 2,023. Before him are Grigory Gagarin, Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, James Rosenquist, Marie Vassilieff, Unkei, and Giuseppe De Nittis. After him are Louis Hersent, William Orpen, Ivan Aguéli, Lygia Clark, Kristjan Raud, and Nadezhda Udaltsova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Nikifor ranks 178. Before him are Oscar Hammerstein II, Brian Horrocks, Marie-Dominique Chenu, Alexander Mikulin, Erich Buschenhagen, and Geo Milev. After him are Plínio Salgado, Frank Foss, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Ayna Sultanova, Louis Raymond, and Giovanni Brunero. Among people deceased in 1968, Nikifor ranks 134. Before him are Lajos Csordás, Weegee, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Fernando Giudicelli, Juan José Tramutola, and Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni. After him are Vahram Papazian, Ivan Pyryev, Muthulakshmi Reddy, Aleksei Kruchyonykh, Abel Bonnard, and George Constantine.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Nikifor ranks 810 out of 1,694. Before him are Hugo von Seeliger (1849), Boris Kaufman (1906), Max Gerson (1881), Leon Wyczółkowski (1852), Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (1922), and Andrzej Bartkowiak (1950). After him are Zofia Zamenhof (1889), Adolf Brudes (1899), Wojciech Korfanty (1873), Chava Alberstein (1946), Jadwiga Piłsudska (1920), and Hermann Boehm (1884).

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Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Nikifor ranks 30. Before him are Wojciech Gerson (1831), Juliusz Kossak (1824), Max Weber (1881), Józef Mehoffer (1869), Józef Chełmoński (1849), and Leon Wyczółkowski (1852). After him are Eugen Schüfftan (1893), Hans Baluschek (1870), Albert Chmielowski (1846), Władysław Ślewiński (1856), Szymon Czechowicz (1689), and Julius Hübner (1806).

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