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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 78,620 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Nikifor is the 1,339th most popular painter (down from 1,189th in 2019), the 766th most popular biography from Poland (down from 703rd in 2019) and the 28th most popular Polish Painter.

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  • 79k

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  • 49.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Nikifor ranks 1,339 out of 1,421. Before him are Bruno Liljefors, Domenico Morelli, Josef Abel, Cosmas Damian Asam, Jan Fabre, and Ștefan Luchian. After him are Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Václav Brožík, María Blanchard, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Kikuchi Yōsai, and Aleksandra Beļcova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Nikifor ranks 164. Before him are Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, Neco, Virginia Rappe, Corrado Alvaro, Giuseppe Bottai, and Alexander Mikulin. After him are Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Nikolay Shchors, Christian Herter, Melville J. Herskovits, Walter Bedell Smith, and Jerzy Kuryłowicz. Among people deceased in 1968, Nikifor ranks 128. Before him are Bobby Driscoll, Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni, Jeanne Demessieux, Ruth St. Denis, Weegee, and Vahram Papazian. After him are Albert Betz, Dorothy Gish, Juan José Tramutola, Lajos Csordás, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, and Charles Bacon.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Nikifor ranks 766 out of 1,454. Before him are Eugen Schüfftan (1893), Wilhelm Julius Foerster (1832), Hermann Boehm (1884), Włodzimierz Smolarek (1957), Edward Lasker (1885), and Henner Henkel (1915). After him are Stanislaus Papczyński (1631), C. L. Gloger (1803), Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1820), Józef Chełmoński (1849), Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768), and Zacharias Ursinus (1534).

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Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Nikifor ranks 28. Before him are Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852), Wojciech Gerson (1831), Władysław Podkowiński (1866), Hans Baluschek (1870), Juliusz Kossak (1824), and Eugen Schüfftan (1893). After him are Józef Chełmoński (1849), Albert Chmielowski (1846), Leon Wyczółkowski (1852), Władysław Ślewiński (1856), Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk (1884), and Mordecai Ardon (1896).

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