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Séraphine Louis

1864 - 1942

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Séraphine Louis, known as Séraphine de Senlis (Séraphine of Senlis; 3 September 1864 – 11 December 1942), was a French painter in the Outsider art. Self-taught, she was inspired by her religious faith and by stained-glass church windows and other religious art. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Séraphine Louis has received more than 235,223 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Séraphine Louis is the 318th most popular painter (down from 311th in 2019), the 1,039th most popular biography from France (down from 989th in 2019) and the 71st most popular French Painter.

Séraphine Louis is most famous for her paintings of the people in her village.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Séraphine Louis ranks 318 out of 1,421Before her are Cosimo Rosselli, Paulus Potter, Alexej von Jawlensky, Carl Spitzweg, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Niccolò dell'Abbate. After her are David Alfaro Siqueiros, Pietro Cavallini, Léon Bonnat, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Jan Gossaert, and Lucio Fontana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Séraphine Louis ranks 29Before her are Frank Wedekind, Rudolf Kjellén, Charles Cooley, Alfred Stieglitz, Yun Chi-ho, and Alexej von Jawlensky. After her are Jules Renard, Nicholas Marr, Paul Sérusier, Johan Halvorsen, Li Yuanhong, and Branislav Nušić. Among people deceased in 1942, Séraphine Louis ranks 32Before her are Bruno Schulz, Hans-Joachim Marseille, Michel Fokine, Kārlis Ulmanis, Yanka Kupala, and Herschel Grynszpan. After her are Alexander von Zemlinsky, Felix Hausdorff, Henri de Baillet-Latour, Prince George, Duke of Kent, Tina Modotti, and Chen Duxiu.

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In France

Among people born in France, Séraphine Louis ranks 1,039 out of 6,011Before her are Madame de Brinvilliers (1630), Émile Gallé (1846), Robert de Sorbon (1201), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Eugène Scribe (1791), and Étienne-Jules Marey (1830). After her are Christian Clavier (1952), Louise Bourgeois (1911), Jean Vigo (1905), Jacques Clément (1567), Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (1346), and Robert IV of Sablé (1150).

Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Séraphine Louis ranks 71Before her are Balthus (1908), Martin Schongauer (1450), Paul Delaroche (1797), James Tissot (1836), Thomas Couture (1815), and Horace Vernet (1789). After her are Léon Bonnat (1833), Jan Gossaert (1478), Émile Bernard (1868), Claude Joseph Vernet (1714), Yves Tanguy (1900), and Pierre Mignard (1612).