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Tsuguharu Foujita

1886 - 1968

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Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (藤田 嗣治, Fujita Tsuguharu, November 27, 1886 – January 29, 1968) was a Japanese–French painter. After having studied Western-style painting in Japan, Foujita traveled to Paris, where he encountered the international modern art scene of the Montparnasse neighborhood and developed an eclectic style that borrowed from both Japanese and European artistic traditions. With his unusual fashion and distinctive figurative style, Foujita reached the height of his fame in 1920s Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tsuguharu Foujita has received more than 417,768 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Tsuguharu Foujita is the 492nd most popular painter (down from 434th in 2019), the 321st most popular biography from Japan (down from 252nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Tsuguharu Foujita ranks 492 out of 2,023. Before him are Jan van Scorel, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Eugène Atget, Paloma Picasso, Roelant Savery, and Moïse Kisling. After him are Richard Hamilton, Philips Wouwerman, Jacopo Amigoni, Guo Xi, Maria Prymachenko, and Hubert Robert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Tsuguharu Foujita ranks 51. Before him are Edward C. Tolman, Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Alain-Fournier, Gottfried Benn, Erich Fellgiebel, and Willem Drees. After him are Giovanni Battista Caproni, Jisaburō Ozawa, Raymond A. Spruance, Georg Stumme, Rex Stout, and Raoul Hausmann. Among people deceased in 1968, Tsuguharu Foujita ranks 43. Before him are Romano Guardini, Arnold Zweig, Charles Chaplin Jr., Josef Harpe, Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, and Georgios Papandreou. After him are Fritz Bauer, Husband E. Kimmel, Leopold Infeld, Giovannino Guareschi, John Heartfield, and Fedor Tokarev.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tsuguharu Foujita ranks 321 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Seiwa (850), Masayoshi Son (1957), Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), Mitsuo Fuchida (1902), Tokugawa Iemochi (1846), and Kondō Isami (1834). After him are Nobuyuki Abe (1875), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Saitō Makoto (1858), Kakuei Tanaka (1918), Tatsuya Nakadai (1932), and Emperor Uda (867).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Tsuguharu Foujita ranks 5. Before him are Yayoi Kusama (1929), Utamaro (1753), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797), and Suzuki Harunobu (1725). After him are Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), Yoshitoshi (1839), Kunisada (1786), Masaaki Hatsumi (1931), Ogata Kōrin (1658), and Takashi Murakami (1962).

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