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Tamara de Lempicka

1898 - 1980

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Tamara Łempicka (pronounced [taˈmara wɛmˈpit͡ska] ; 16 June 1894 – 18 March 1980), known outside Poland as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes. Born in Warsaw, records have long asserted her birthname was Tamara Rozalia Gurwik-Górska, though documents have uncovered her true name as Tamara Rosa Hurwitz. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tamara de Lempicka has received more than 1,894,468 page views. Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Tamara de Lempicka is the 142nd most popular painter (down from 108th in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from Poland (down from 45th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Painter.

Tamara de Lempicka was an early 20th century Polish-born French painter. She is most famous for her paintings of fashionable women.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Tamara de Lempicka ranks 142 out of 2,023. Before her are Jean Dubuffet, Odilon Redon, Antonello da Messina, Lavinia Fontana, Robert Campin, and Robert Delaunay. After her are Pontormo, Umberto Boccioni, Charles Le Brun, Theo van Gogh, Albrecht Altdorfer, and Suzanne Valadon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Tamara de Lempicka ranks 20. Before her are Herbert Marcuse, George Gershwin, C. S. Lewis, Liu Shaoqi, Gunnar Myrdal, and Leo Szilard. After her are Isidor Isaac Rabi, Julius Evola, Hans Krebs, Rodion Malinovsky, Rudolf Dassler, and Henry Moore. Among people deceased in 1980, Tamara de Lempicka ranks 17. Before her are Oskar Kokoschka, Steve McQueen, Jesse Owens, Colonel Sanders, Joe Dassin, and Henry Miller. After her are Marshall McLuhan, Gianni Rodari, Peter Sellers, Vladimir Vysotsky, Alexei Kosygin, and Otto Frank.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Tamara de Lempicka ranks 77 out of 1,694. Before her are Gustav Fechner (1801), Marie Walewska (1786), Anna Jagiellon (1523), Jakob Böhme (1575), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), and Werner von Blomberg (1878). After her are Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), Kurt Alder (1902), Catherine Jagiellon (1526), Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761), and Andrzej Sapkowski (1948).

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Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Tamara de Lempicka ranks 1. After her are Jan Matejko (1838), Zdzisław Beksiński (1929), Aleksandra Ekster (1882), Moïse Kisling (1891), Otto Mueller (1874), Tadeusz Kantor (1915), Hans Bellmer (1902), Jacek Malczewski (1854), Olga Boznańska (1865), Aleksander Orłowski (1777), and Józef Brandt (1841).

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