PAINTER

Wojciech Gerson

1831 - 1901

Photo of Wojciech Gerson

Icon of person Wojciech Gerson

Wojciech Gerson (Polish: [ˈvɔjt͡ɕɛɣ ˈɡɛrsɔn]; 1 July 1831 – 25 February 1901) was a Polish painter, educator, architect and art critic who was one of the foremost representatives of the Polish school of Realism during the foreign Partitions of Poland. He served as long-time professor of the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and taught future luminaries of Polish neo-romanticism including Józef Chełmoński, Leon Wyczółkowski, Władysław Podkowiński, Józef Pankiewicz and Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowiczowa among others. He also wrote art-reviews and published a book of anatomy for the artists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wojciech Gerson has received more than 52,684 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Wojciech Gerson is the 1,271st most popular painter (down from 1,256th in 2019), the 718th most popular biography from Poland (down from 717th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Polish Painter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 53k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Wojciech Gerson ranks 1,271 out of 2,023. Before him are George Dawe, Magnus Enckell, Albertus Pictor, Richard Bergh, Edward Poynter, and Henri Le Sidaner. After him are Bart van der Leck, Julie Manet, Francisco Herrera the Younger, Kuroda Seiki, Mikoláš Aleš, and Jacques-Émile Blanche.

Most Popular Painters in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Wojciech Gerson ranks 64. Before him are Subh-i-Azal, Georg Sauerwein, Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet, Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay, Theodor Aman, and Hedwig Dohm. After him are Filippo Marchetti, Heinrich Anton de Bary, Jacob W. Davis, Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, Ebenezer Cobb Morley, and José Evaristo Uriburu. Among people deceased in 1901, Wojciech Gerson ranks 49. Before him are Aleksander Gierymski, Prince Henri of Orléans, Cornelius Gurlitt, Jacob Georg Agardh, Johannes Schmidt, and Jules Barbier. After him are Ghevont Alishan, Alexander Kovalevsky, Herman Grimm, Arvid Posse, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, and Peter Benoit.

Others Born in 1831

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1901

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wojciech Gerson ranks 718 out of 1,694. Before him are Stanislaus Hosius (1504), Marek Janowski (1939), Richard Herrmann (1923), Aleksander Wolszczan (1946), Joanna Chmielewska (1932), and Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (1925). After him are Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905), Lothar Bisky (1941), Miliza Korjus (1905), Leopold von Wiese (1876), Gisela Hahn (1943), and Bernhard Grzimek (1909).

Others born in Poland

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Wojciech Gerson ranks 24. Before him are Jankel Adler (1895), Aleksander Gierymski (1850), Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808), Louis Marcoussis (1878), Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852), and Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745). After him are Juliusz Kossak (1824), Max Weber (1881), Józef Mehoffer (1869), Józef Chełmoński (1849), Leon Wyczółkowski (1852), and Nikifor (1895).

Polish born Painters

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous