Painter

Willem de Kooning

Dutch-American painter

1904 - 1997

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His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2024). Willem de Kooning is the 333rd most popular painter (down from 285th in 2024), the 131st most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 118th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Dutch Painter.

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

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#131 / 2,139

Willem de Kooning ranks #131 among 2,139 people in Pantheon born in Netherlands, inside the top 7% of that group.

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Willem de Kooning's biography appears in 48 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 91% of all Painters.

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Among Painters

Among painters, Willem de Kooning ranks 333 out of 2,055. Before him are Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Niccolò dell'Abbate, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Félicien Rops, Thomas Couture, and Léon Bakst. After him are Louis Wain, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Adriaen Brouwer, Aelbert Cuyp, Carlo Crivelli, and Adriaen van Ostade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Willem de Kooning ranks 42. Before him are Luis Carrero Blanco, Antonín Novotný, Lucile Randon, Gregory Bateson, Nikolai Ostrovsky, and George F. Kennan. After him are Joseph Campbell, John Gielgud, George Balanchine, Charles J. Pedersen, Karl Rahner, and Tadao Takayama. Among people deceased in 1997, Willem de Kooning ranks 45. Before him are Chien-Shiung Wu, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Dodi Fayed, Zoltán Czibor, Otto Ernst Remer, and Colonel Tom Parker. After him are Teiichi Matsumaru, Cornelius Castoriadis, Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Carl Gustav Hempel, Burgess Meredith, and Stéphane Grappelli.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem de Kooning ranks 131 out of 2,139. Before him are Colonel Tom Parker (1909), Marinus van der Lubbe (1909), Jacob Clemens non Papa (1510), Arie Haan (1948), Bernard Haitink (1929), and Gerard 't Hooft (1946). After him are Aelbert Cuyp (1620), Tjalling Koopmans (1910), Pier Gerlofs Donia (1480), Bertha of Holland (1055), Ruud Krol (1949), and Edwin van der Sar (1970).

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Among Painters In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Willem de Kooning ranks 29. Before him are Gerrit Dou (1613), Pieter Aertsen (1508), Lucas van Leyden (1494), Willem Claesz. Heda (1594), Gerard David (1450), and Anton Mauve (1838). After him are Aelbert Cuyp (1620), Adriaen van Ostade (1610), Gabriël Metsu (1629), Ferdinand Bol (1616), Karel Appel (1921), and Paulus Potter (1625).

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