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Wojciech Gerson

1831 - 1901

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Wojciech Gerson (Polish: [ˈvɔjt͡ɕɛɣ ˈɡɛrsɔn]; 1 July 1831 – 25 February 1901) was a leading Polish painter of the mid-19th century, and 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 47,972 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Wojciech Gerson is the 1,257th most popular painter (down from 1,195th in 2019), the 717th most popular biography from Poland (down from 705th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Polish Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Wojciech Gerson ranks 1,257 out of 1,421. Before him are Antonio Berni, Edward Robert Hughes, Paul César Helleu, Apollinary Vasnetsov, Gerard de Lairesse, and Joseph Duplessis. After him are Karin Bergöö Larsson, Pavel Filonov, Milena Pavlović-Barili, Fanny Brate, Unkei, and Alan Lee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Wojciech Gerson ranks 63. Before him are Heinrich Anton de Bary, Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Subh-i-Azal, Paolo Mantegazza, and Alexander, Prince of Lippe. After him are Johann von Herbeck, Ebenezer Cobb Morley, Theodor Aman, Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, Jovan Ristić, and Archibald Scott Couper. Among people deceased in 1901, Wojciech Gerson ranks 49. Before him are Henry Peach Robinson, Cornelius Gurlitt, Carlo Alfredo Piatti, Arvid Posse, Aleksander Gierymski, and Alfred Tysoe. After him are Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, Jacob Georg Agardh, Alexander Kovalevsky, Peter Benoit, Jules Barbier, and Edward John Eyre.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wojciech Gerson ranks 717 out of 1,454. Before him are Jan Kiepura (1902), Wilhelm Gliese (1915), Marian Spychalski (1906), Anna Wierzbicka (1938), Zenon Grocholewski (1939), and Kurt Feldt (1897). After him are Carl Tausig (1841), Salomon Morel (1919), Theodor Kotschy (1813), Władysław Podkowiński (1866), Hanna Suchocka (1946), and Stanislaus Hosius (1504).

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Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Wojciech Gerson ranks 23. Before him are Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808), Aleksander Orłowski (1777), Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1819), Aleksander Gierymski (1850), Max Weber (1881), and Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852). After him are Władysław Podkowiński (1866), Hans Baluschek (1870), Juliusz Kossak (1824), Eugen Schüfftan (1893), Nikifor (1895), and Józef Chełmoński (1849).

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