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Toyen

1902 - 1980

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Toyen (born Marie Čermínová; 21 September 1902 – 9 November 1980) was a Czech painter, drafter, and illustrator and a member of the surrealist movement. In 1923, the artist adopted the professional pseudonym Toyen. The name Toyen has been suggested to be derived from the French word 'citoyen,' meaning citizen, but it has also been proposed to be a play on the Czech expression ‘to je on’ (‘it is he’). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Toyen has received more than 158,634 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Toyen is the 981st most popular painter (down from 661st in 2019), the 306th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 220th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Czech Painter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Toyen ranks 981 out of 2,023. Before her are Aleksander Orłowski, Philip de Koninck, Raden Saleh, David Teniers the Elder, Roger Fry, and Paul Gustav Fischer. After her are Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Frans van Mieris the Elder, Józef Brandt, Jean Hey, Abraham Mignon, and Taddeo Zuccari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Toyen ranks 124. Before her are Hans von Dohnanyi, Mortimer J. Adler, Andrew Irvine, Regina Jonas, Peng Zhen, and Tallulah Bankhead. After her are Eric Liddell, Boris Barnet, Josef Krips, Nordahl Grieg, Virginio Rosetta, and Shigeyoshi Suzuki. Among people deceased in 1980, Toyen ranks 114. Before her are Yahya Khan, Luigi Longo, Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Ernst Ocwirk, Alf Sjöberg, and Hiroshi Inagaki. After her are Sherm Clark, Franco Basaglia, Erich Hückel, Barbara O'Neil, Pietro Nenni, and Cecil Beaton.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Toyen ranks 306 out of 1,200. Before her are Miloslav Vlk (1932), Antonín Mrkos (1918), Otakar Ševčík (1852), Johann Joseph Abert (1832), Conrad II, Duke of Bohemia (1136), and Soběslav II, Duke of Bohemia (1128). After her are Jiří Kylián (1947), Prince Ernst of Hohenberg (1904), Karl Fritzsch (1903), Artur London (1915), Karel Jaromír Erben (1811), and Petr Brandl (1668).

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Among PAINTERS In Czechia

Among painters born in Czechia, Toyen ranks 7. Before her are Alphonse Mucha (1860), Anton Raphael Mengs (1728), František Kupka (1871), Wenceslaus Hollar (1607), Emil Orlík (1870), and Karel Škréta (1610). After her are Petr Brandl (1668), Anna Chromý (1940), Gabriel von Max (1840), Zdeněk Burian (1905), Georg Flegel (1566), and Josef Mánes (1820).

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