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Tadeusz Kantor

1915 - 1990

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Tadeusz Kantor (6 April 1915 – 8 December 1990) was a Polish painter, assemblage and Happenings artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor is renowned for his revolutionary theatrical performances in Poland and abroad. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tadeusz Kantor has received more than 163,366 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Tadeusz Kantor is the 642nd most popular painter (down from 633rd in 2019), the 360th most popular biography from Poland (down from 358th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Tadeusz Kantor ranks 642 out of 2,023. Before him are Jean-Paul Laurens, Théo van Rysselberghe, Jacques Lipchitz, Altichiero, Boris Kustodiev, and Valentin de Boulogne. After him are Charles-André van Loo, Francesco Filippini, Adriaen van Utrecht, Sharaku, Bartolomeo Vivarini, and Francesco de' Rossi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Tadeusz Kantor ranks 68. Before him are Alan Watts, W. Arthur Lewis, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Konstantin Simonov, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., and Geraldine of Albania. After him are Gretl Braun, Don Budge, Joseph Greenberg, Georgy Sviridov, Kunihiko Kodaira, and Hanns Martin Schleyer. Among people deceased in 1990, Tadeusz Kantor ranks 62. Before him are Aaron Copland, Edward A. Murphy Jr., Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Stewart Bell, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, and Jim Henson. After him are Arthur Kennedy, Samuel Noah Kramer, Lewis Mumford, Nicola Abbagnano, Samuel Doe, and Dexter Gordon.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Tadeusz Kantor ranks 360 out of 1,694. Before him are Maximilian von Prittwitz (1848), Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886), Alfred Korzybski (1879), Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria (1457), Józef Elsner (1769), and Hugo Steinhaus (1887). After him are Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785), Roman Ingarden (1893), Avraham Stern (1907), Andreas Gryphius (1616), Lukas Podolski (1985), and Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838).

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Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Tadeusz Kantor ranks 7. Before him are Tamara de Lempicka (1898), Jan Matejko (1838), Zdzisław Beksiński (1929), Aleksandra Ekster (1882), Moïse Kisling (1891), and Otto Mueller (1874). After him are Hans Bellmer (1902), Jacek Malczewski (1854), Olga Boznańska (1865), Aleksander Orłowski (1777), Józef Brandt (1841), and Władysław Podkowiński (1866).

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