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Vilmos Aba-Novák

1894 - 1941

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Vilmos Aba-Novák (Hungarian: Aba-Novák Vilmos, until 1912: Hungarian: Novák Vilmos; March 15, 1894 – September 29, 1941) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He was an original representative of modern art in his country, and specifically of its modern monumental painting. He was also the celebrated author of frescoes and church murals at Szeged and Budapest, and was officially patronized by the Hungarian nobility. As a fresco painter, he completed numerous state and church commissions (for example: the frescoes of the Roman catholic church in Jászszentandrás, the Heroes' Gate in Szeged, the frescoes of the Szent István mausoleum in Székesfehérvár) in 1937 he won the World Exhibition in Paris, in 1940 the XXII. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vilmos Aba-Novák has received more than 45,825 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Vilmos Aba-Novák is the 1,292nd most popular painter (up from 1,397th in 2019), the 360th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 411th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Hungarian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Vilmos Aba-Novák ranks 1,292 out of 2,023. Before him are Henri Le Fauconnier, Dirk van der Aa, George Turner, Willem van de Velde the Elder, Emanuel Leutze, and Georges Vantongerloo. After him are Francesco Zuccarelli, Pieter Boel, Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Maria Wodzińska, Boris Yefimov, and M. F. Husain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Vilmos Aba-Novák ranks 136. Before him are Mikheil Chiaureli, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Sofoklis Venizelos, Carlos Luz, Harold Innis, and Ecaterina Teodoroiu. After him are Turar Ryskulov, Georges Carpentier, Hermann Muhs, Paul Dessau, Johan Wilhelm Rangell, and J. B. Priestley. Among people deceased in 1941, Vilmos Aba-Novák ranks 121. Before him are George Minne, Maurice Bavaud, Mihály Babits, Edgar Aabye, Giuseppe Amisani, and Alexander Svanidze. After him are Philippe Gaubert, Rudolf Ramek, Friedrich Akel, J. Stuart Blackton, Franz Bartl, and Filipp Makharadze.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Vilmos Aba-Novák ranks 360 out of 1,077. Before him are József Eötvös (1813), Nándor Dáni (1871), Isidor Gunsberg (1854), Ervin Zádor (1935), Vilmos Zsigmond (1930), and Pál Kovács (1912). After him are Éva Székely (1927), Ferenc Kölcsey (1790), Eva Gabor (1919), József Rippl-Rónai (1861), Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria (1867), and Móric Esterházy (1881).

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Among PAINTERS In Hungary

Among painters born in Hungary, Vilmos Aba-Novák ranks 8. Before him are Mihály Munkácsy (1844), Mihály Zichy (1827), Philip de László (1869), Amrita Sher-Gil (1913), László Mednyánszky (1852), and Gyula Benczúr (1844). After him are József Rippl-Rónai (1861), Igor Grabar (1871), Katarina Ivanović (1811), Ilka Gedő (1921), and Lajos Tihanyi (1885).

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