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Nikolai Ge

1831 - 1894

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Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge (Russian: Николай Николаевич Ге; 27 February [O.S. 15 February] 1831 – 13 June [O.S. 1 June] 1894) was a Russian painter who was influential in the development of Russian symbolism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Ge has received more than 173,074 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Nikolai Ge is the 659th most popular painter (up from 662nd in 2019), the 595th most popular biography from Russia (up from 639th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Russian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Nikolai Ge ranks 659 out of 2,023Before him are Ni Zan, Tang Yin, Theodor Kittelsen, Jannis Kounellis, Barthélemy d'Eyck, and Mikhail Larionov. After him are Alonso Sánchez Coello, François-Édouard Picot, Nicolas Lancret, Marietta Robusti, Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, and Bartholomeus van der Helst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Nikolai Ge ranks 32Before him are Nadezhda von Meck, Ilya Ulyanov, Isabella Bird, Constantin Meunier, Maurice de Hirsch, and Ludvig Nobel. After him are Paul Durand-Ruel, Anna Leonowens, George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Othniel Charles Marsh, Ankō Itosu, and Princess Helena of Nassau. Among people deceased in 1894, Nikolai Ge ranks 22Before him are Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, August Kundt, Emmanuel Chabrier, Hassan I of Morocco, Austen Henry Layard, and Nadezhda von Meck. After him are Guillaume Lekeu, Eugène Charles Catalan, Sante Geronimo Caserio, Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, and Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Ge ranks 595 out of 3,761Before him are Wilhelm Voigt (1849), Yuri II of Vladimir (1188), Ludmilla Tourischeva (1952), Alexander Lebed (1950), Vladislav Volkov (1935), and Pavel Axelrod (1850). After him are Valeri Kubasov (1935), Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925), Konstantin Paustovsky (1892), Yaroslav of Tver (1230), Yury Romanenko (1944), and Georges Gurvitch (1894).

Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Nikolai Ge ranks 25Before him are Ivan Bilibin (1876), Konstantin Makovsky (1839), Martiros Saryan (1880), Nicolas de Staël (1914), Boris Kustodiev (1878), and Jean Béraud (1849). After him are Mikhail Nesterov (1862), Viktor Hartmann (1834), Alexei Savrasov (1830), Konstantin Korovin (1861), Vasily Polenov (1844), and Vasily Tropinin (1776).