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Willem de Kooning

1904 - 1997

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Willem de Kooning ( də KOO-ning, Dutch: [ˈʋɪləm də ˈkoːnɪŋ]; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. Born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, he moved to the United States in 1926, becoming a US citizen in 1962. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willem de Kooning has received more than 1,945,699 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Willem de Kooning is the 285th most popular painter (down from 245th in 2019), the 118th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 90th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Dutch Painter.

Willem de Kooning is most famous for his abstract expressionist paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Willem de Kooning ranks 285 out of 2,023. Before him are Judith Leyster, Max Liebermann, Gabriele Münter, Philippe de Champaigne, Félix Vallotton, and Max Beckmann. After him are Franz Stuck, François Gérard, Pieter Aertsen, Natalia Goncharova, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, and Carlo Crivelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Willem de Kooning ranks 40. Before him are Ernst Mayr, Hans Morgenthau, Wendell Meredith Stanley, George F. Kennan, Alejo Carpentier, and Lucile Randon. After him are Odilo Globočnik, Joseph Campbell, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Clifford D. Simak, Otto Robert Frisch, and Héctor Castro. Among people deceased in 1997, Willem de Kooning ranks 37. Before him are Robert Mitchum, Carl Gustav Hempel, Edward Mills Purcell, Dora Maar, Zoltán Czibor, and Chien-Shiung Wu. After him are Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Cornelius Castoriadis, John Eccles, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, John Kendrew, and Otto Ernst Remer.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem de Kooning ranks 118 out of 1,646. Before him are Edwin van der Sar (1970), Mark Rutte (1967), Jan Jongbloed (1940), Judith Leyster (1609), Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692), and Willem Schouten (1567). After him are Pieter Aertsen (1508), Ruud Krol (1949), Arie Haan (1948), Bertha of Holland (1055), Claus Sluter (1340), and Harry Mulisch (1927).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Willem de Kooning ranks 26. Before him are Gabriël Metsu (1629), Carel Fabritius (1622), Kees van Dongen (1877), Jan van Goyen (1596), Hendrick Avercamp (1585), and Judith Leyster (1609). After him are Pieter Aertsen (1508), Adriaen van Ostade (1610), Paulus Potter (1625), George Hendrik Breitner (1857), Gerard David (1450), and Anton Mauve (1838).

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