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René Magritte

1898 - 1967

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René François Ghislain Magritte (French: [ʁəne fʁɑ̃swa ɡilɛ̃ maɡʁit]; 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Magritte has received more than 3,893,502 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). René Magritte is the 40th most popular painter (down from 38th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 7th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belgian Painter.

René Magritte is most famous for his surrealist paintings that often depict ordinary objects in an unusual context.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, René Magritte ranks 40 out of 1,421. Before him are Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Gustave Courbet, Giotto, Joan Miró, and Tintoretto. After him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Masaccio, Caspar David Friedrich, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, J. M. W. Turner, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, René Magritte ranks 2. Before him is Bertolt Brecht. After him are Alvar Aalto, Erich Maria Remarque, Sergei Eisenstein, Federico García Lorca, Golda Meir, M. C. Escher, Enzo Ferrari, Zhou Enlai, George Gershwin, and Umm Kulthum. Among people deceased in 1967, René Magritte ranks 2. Before him is Che Guevara. After him are Konrad Adenauer, Puyi, Vivien Leigh, Ilse Koch, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Spencer Tracy, Vladimir Komarov, Clement Attlee, Edward Hopper, and Mohammad Mosaddegh.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, René Magritte ranks 8 out of 1,019. Before him are Pepin the Short (715), Clovis I (466), Charles Martel (688), Audrey Hepburn (1929), Jan van Eyck (1395), and Andreas Vesalius (1514). After him are Maurice Maeterlinck (1862), Gerardus Mercator (1512), Leopold II of Belgium (1835), Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908), Philip I of Castile (1478), and Anthony van Dyck (1599).

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Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, René Magritte ranks 2. Before him are Jan van Eyck (1395). After him are Anthony van Dyck (1599), Rogier van der Weyden (1390), Frans Hals (1582), Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564), Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568), Hugo van der Goes (1440), Jacob Jordaens (1593), James Ensor (1860), Petrus Christus (1410), and Quentin Matsys (1466).

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