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Vilhelms Purvītis

1872 - 1945

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Vilhelms Purvītis (3 March 1872 – 14 January 1945) was a landscape painter and educator who founded the Latvian Academy of Art and was its rector from 1919 to 1934. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vilhelms Purvītis has received more than 41,019 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Vilhelms Purvītis is the 1,393rd most popular painter (down from 1,159th in 2019), the 99th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 82nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Latvian Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Vilhelms Purvītis ranks 1,393 out of 2,023. Before him are A. R. Penck, Joseph von Führich, Giacomo Ceruti, Edward Robert Hughes, Adolph Gottlieb, and Ludwig Emil Grimm. After him are Virgil Solis, Jesús Rafael Soto, Anni Albers, Austin Osman Spare, Giusto de' Menabuoi, and Óscar Domínguez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Vilhelms Purvītis ranks 109. Before him are Tōson Shimazaki, Jaan Teemant, Kazimierz Bein, Carl Gustaf Ekman, Maude Adams, and Morris Travers. After him are Georges Urbain, Adolphe Grisel, Henry Bataille, Otto Witte, Teffi, and Albert Tyler. Among people deceased in 1945, Vilhelms Purvītis ranks 240. Before him are Karl Leisner, Rupert Mayer, Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Lucien Simon, Joachim von Kortzfleisch, and Carl Gustaf Ekman. After him are Milena Pavlović-Barili, Frederic Clements, Alexander Granach, Agnes Baden-Powell, Fejzi Alizoti, and Albrecht Haushofer.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Vilhelms Purvītis ranks 99 out of 323. Before him are Karl Davydov (1838), Ernst von Bergmann (1836), Krišjānis Barons (1835), Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824), Laima Vaikule (1954), and Vizma Belševica (1931). After him are Vija Artmane (1929), Arvīds Jansons (1914), Anatoly Solovyev (1948), Alexander von Keyserling (1815), Morris Halle (1923), and Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen (1913).

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Among PAINTERS In Latvia

Among painters born in Latvia, Vilhelms Purvītis ranks 4. Before him are Mark Rothko (1903), Janis Rozentāls (1866), and Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824). After him are Vija Celmins (1938).

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