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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 38,791 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Vilhelms Purvītis is the 1,160th most popular painter (down from 1,140th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Latvia (up from 86th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Latvian Painter.

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Among painters, Vilhelms Purvītis ranks 1,160 out of 1,421. Before him are Carlo Cignani, Carl Moll, Joseph Cornell, Ilya Glazunov, Serge Poliakoff, and Pablo Gargallo. After him are Rudolf von Alt, Jean Jouvenet, Henri Lebasque, Bridget Riley, Gustaaf Wappers, and Giuseppe Abbati.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Vilhelms Purvītis ranks 89. Before him are Franz John, Edith Wilson, Bak Jungyang, Dionysios Kasdaglis, Heinrich Vogeler, and Tōson Shimazaki. After him are Mikhail Kuzmin, Otto Witte, Georges Urbain, Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, Elia Dalla Costa, and Carl Gustaf Ekman. Among people deceased in 1945, Vilhelms Purvītis ranks 207. Before him are Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria, John Curtin, Emil von Reznicek, Alfred Saalwächter, Carl Moll, and Yakov Protazanov. After him are Agnes Baden-Powell, Eddie Slovik, Hannie Schaft, Karl Leisner, Jüri Uluots, and Demyan Bedny.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Vilhelms Purvītis ranks 82 out of 284. Before him are Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801), Jānis Balodis (1881), Juris Hartmanis (1928), Jānis Rudzutaks (1887), Lina Stern (1878), and Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903). After him are Arvīds Jansons (1914), Anatolijs Gorbunovs (1942), Krišjānis Barons (1835), Karl Davydov (1838), Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg (1802), and Janis Rozentāls (1866).

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Among PAINTERS In Latvia

Among painters born in Latvia, Vilhelms Purvītis ranks 3. Before him are Mark Rothko (1903) and Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824). After him are Janis Rozentāls (1866).

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