PAINTER

Roman Opałka

1931 - 2011

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Roman Opałka (Polish: [ˈrɔman ɔˈpawka]; 27 August 1931 – 6 August 2011) was a French-born Polish painter, whose works are mostly associated with conceptual art. Opałka was born on 27 August 1939 in Abbeville-Saint-Lucien, France, to Polish parents. The family returned to Poland in 1946 and Opałka studied lithography at a graphics school before enrolling in the School of Art and Design in Łódź. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roman Opałka has received more than 114,288 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Roman Opałka is the 843rd most popular painter (down from 779th in 2019), the 2,453rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,307th in 2019) and the 156th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Roman Opałka ranks 843 out of 2,023. Before him are Vasily Polenov, Maximilien Luce, Vincenzo Catena, Wolf Huber, Marguerite Gérard, and Helen Allingham. After him are Stradanus, Toros Roslin, Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, Gustave Boulanger, John Collier, and Ford Madox Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Roman Opałka ranks 151. Before him are Barbara Bain, Takashi Mizuno, Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Dan Gurney, Igor Oistrakh, and Daniel Ellsberg. After him are E. L. Doctorow, Guido de Marco, Claude Piron, Magali Noël, Carmen Dell'Orefice, and Shintaro Katsu. Among people deceased in 2011, Roman Opałka ranks 110. Before him are Roland Petit, Charles Napier, Marie-France Pisier, Nancy Wake, Bhupen Hazarika, and Facundo Cabral. After him are Arnfinn Bergmann, Võ Chí Công, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Ken Russell, Helen Frankenthaler, and Peter Alexander.

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In France

Among people born in France, Roman Opałka ranks 2,453 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788), Jacques Pills (1906), Marguerite Gérard (1761), Antoine Coysevox (1640), Blanche of Artois (1248), and Félix d'Herelle (1873). After him are Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours (1624), Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall (1284), Henri Eberhardt (1913), Yolanda of Courtenay (1197), Madeleine Vionnet (1876), and Zygmunt Krasiński (1812).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Roman Opałka ranks 156. Before him are Jacques Villon (1875), Jean François de Troy (1679), Louis Anquetin (1861), Jean Fautrier (1898), Maximilien Luce (1858), and Marguerite Gérard (1761). After him are Gustave Boulanger (1824), Ford Madox Brown (1821), Carolus-Duran (1837), François-Xavier Fabre (1766), Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761), and Eustache Le Sueur (1616).

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