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Octav Băncilă

1872 - 1944

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Octav Băncilă (Romanian pronunciation: [okˈtav bənˈt͡ʃilə]; 4 February 1872 – 3 April 1944) was a Romanian realist painter and left-wing activist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Octav Băncilă has received more than 42,987 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Octav Băncilă is the 1,895th most popular painter (down from 1,609th in 2019), the 455th most popular biography from Romania (down from 379th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Romanian Painter.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Octav Băncilă ranks 1,895 out of 2,023. Before him are Augustus John, William Stanley Haseltine, Harry Clarke, Frank Auerbach, Hans Eworth, and Frank Weston Benson. After him are Jacek Yerka, Mikuláš Galanda, R. B. Kitaj, Willard Metcalf, Aleksandr Petrov, and Milt Kahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Octav Băncilă ranks 174. Before him are Giovanni Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, Julio Acosta García, Leonid Sobinov, Wivi Lönn, Lucille La Verne, and Bernard Knubel. After him are William Desmond Taylor, Dimitrios Drivas, Anna Held, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Joseph Barcroft, and Rudolf Schlechter. Among people deceased in 1944, Octav Băncilă ranks 287. Before him are Lev Shcherba, Eoin O'Duffy, Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Endre Steiner, John Dill, and Katri Vala. After him are Toni Merkens, Divna Veković, Józef Kałuża, Chandramukhi Basu, Stephen Leacock, and Michael Pedersen Friis.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Octav Băncilă ranks 455 out of 844. Before him are Emerich Dembrovschi (1945), Victor Ciorbea (1954), Teodor Meleșcanu (1941), Mircea Rednic (1962), Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic (1946), and Costică Ștefănescu (1951). After him are Mădălina Diana Ghenea (1987), Ilie Subășeanu (1906), Lajos Keresztes (1900), Constantin Alexandru (1953), Dorin Mateuț (1965), and Valeriu Bularca (1931).

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Among PAINTERS In Romania

Among painters born in Romania, Octav Băncilă ranks 13. Before him are Bertalan Székely (1835), Corneliu Baba (1906), Ștefan Luchian (1868), Ion Andreescu (1850), Theodor Pallady (1871), and Blanka Teleki (1806). After him are Alexandra Nechita (1985).

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