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Pierre Bonnard

1867 - 1947

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Pierre Bonnard (French: [bɔnaʁ]; 3 October 1867 – 23 January 1947) was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color. A founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis, his early work was strongly influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin, as well as the prints of Hokusai and other Japanese artists. Bonnard was a leading figure in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Bonnard has received more than 884,615 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Pierre Bonnard is the 215th most popular painter (down from 181st in 2019), the 702nd most popular biography from France (down from 609th in 2019) and the 57th most popular French Painter.

Pierre Bonnard is most famous for his paintings of the French countryside.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Pierre Bonnard has had the most page views in the with 206,631 views, followed by English (120,202), and Japanese (15,704). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Urdu (188.48%), French (185.32%), and Thai (171.87%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Pierre Bonnard ranks 215 out of 2,023. Before him are Georgia O'Keeffe, Dieric Bouts, Paul Delvaux, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Antoine-Jean Gros, and H. R. Giger. After him are Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Petrus Christus, Rosso Fiorentino, Saskia van Uylenburgh, and Thomas Gainsborough.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Pierre Bonnard ranks 19. Before him are Natsume Sōseki, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Walther Rathenau, Maxime Weygand, Johannes Fibiger, and Władysław Reymont. After him are Enrique Granados, Stanley Baldwin, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Ignacy Mościcki, Irving Fisher, and Umberto Giordano. Among people deceased in 1947, Pierre Bonnard ranks 25. Before him are Aung San, Ernst Lubitsch, Han van Meegeren, G. H. Hardy, Karl Mannheim, and Frederick Gowland Hopkins. After him are Nicholas Roerich, Black Dahlia, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Stanley Baldwin, and Victor Lustig.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Bonnard ranks 702 out of 6,770. Before him are Madame de La Fayette (1634), Raymond Aron (1905), François Jacob (1920), Antoine-Jean Gros (1771), Pierre Loti (1850), and Maurice Gamelin (1872). After him are Alexandre Millerand (1859), François Ravaillac (1578), Jacques Maritain (1882), Jean Parisot de Valette (1494), Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729), and Rudolph of France (890).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Pierre Bonnard ranks 57. Before him are Niki de Saint Phalle (1930), Maurice de Vlaminck (1876), Raoul Dufy (1877), Aristide Maillol (1861), Alexandre Cabanel (1823), and Antoine-Jean Gros (1771). After him are Jeanne Hébuterne (1898), Simon Vouet (1590), Charles-François Daubigny (1817), Jacques Callot (1592), Georges Rouault (1871), and Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725).

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