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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 4,202,139 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). René Magritte is the 38th most popular painter (up from 40th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 8th 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 38 out of 2,023Before him are Edgar Degas, Marc Chagall, Jacques-Louis David, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Giotto, and Joan Miró. After him are Masaccio, Gustave Courbet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Amedeo Modigliani, Tintoretto, and Nicolas Poussin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, René Magritte ranks 3Before him are Golda Meir, and Bertolt Brecht. After him are Alvar Aalto, Erich Maria Remarque, Federico García Lorca, Enzo Ferrari, Sergei Eisenstein, Umm Kulthum, M. C. Escher, Zhou Enlai, and William James Sidis. Among people deceased in 1967, René Magritte ranks 3Before him are Che Guevara, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. After him are Konrad Adenauer, Vivien Leigh, Puyi, Casimir Funk, Vladimir Komarov, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Clement Attlee, Ilse Koch, and Spencer Tracy.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, René Magritte ranks 7 out of 1,190Before him are Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500), Pepin the Short (715), Clovis I (466), Charles Martel (688), Audrey Hepburn (1929), and Jan van Eyck (1395). After him are Leopold II of Belgium (1835), Gerardus Mercator (1512), Maurice Maeterlinck (1862), Andreas Vesalius (1514), Anthony van Dyck (1599), and Leopold III of Belgium (1901).

Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, René Magritte ranks 2Before him are Jan van Eyck (1395). After him are Anthony van Dyck (1599), Frans Hals (1582), Rogier van der Weyden (1390), Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564), Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568), Jacob Jordaens (1593), James Ensor (1860), Hugo van der Goes (1440), Quentin Matsys (1466), and Paul Delvaux (1897).