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Paul Gauguin

1848 - 1903

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Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (UK: , US: , French: [øʒɛn ɑ̃ʁi pɔl ɡoɡɛ̃]; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an influential practitioner of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Gauguin has received more than 5,578,586 page views. His biography is available in 103 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 100 in 2019). Paul Gauguin is the 19th most popular painter (down from 16th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from France (down from 21st in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Painter.

Paul Gauguin is most famous for his painting, "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?"

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Paul Gauguin ranks 19 out of 1,421. Before him are Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Sandro Botticelli, Diego Velázquez, Paul Cézanne, and Henri Matisse. After him are Titian, Donatello, Gustav Klimt, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Eugène Delacroix, and Édouard Manet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Paul Gauguin ranks 1. After him are Octave Mirbeau, Vilfredo Pareto, Gottlob Frege, Otto Lilienthal, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Gustave Caillebotte, Otto of Bavaria, Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Hugo de Vries, and Tōgō Heihachirō. Among people deceased in 1903, Paul Gauguin ranks 1. After him are Herbert Spencer, Pope Leo XIII, Camille Pissarro, Theodor Mommsen, Alois Hitler, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Alexander I of Serbia, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Otto Weininger, and Hugo Wolf.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Gauguin ranks 29 out of 6,011. Before him are Napoleon III (1808), Coco Chanel (1883), Paul Cézanne (1839), Henri Matisse (1869), Alexandre Dumas (1802), and Antoine Lavoisier (1743). After him are Édith Piaf (1915), Louis XV of France (1710), Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807), Henry IV of France (1553), Marcel Proust (1871), and Denis Diderot (1713).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Paul Gauguin ranks 4. Before him are Claude Monet (1840), Paul Cézanne (1839), and Henri Matisse (1869). After him are Eugène Delacroix (1798), Édouard Manet (1832), Edgar Degas (1834), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Gustave Courbet (1819), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864).

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