PAINTER

Xu Beihong

1895 - 1953

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Xu Beihong (Chinese: 徐悲鴻; Wade–Giles: Hsü Pei-hung; 19 July 1895 – 26 September 1953), also known as Ju Péon, was a Chinese painter.He was primarily known for his Chinese ink paintings of horses and birds and was one of the first Chinese artists to articulate the need for artistic expressions that reflected a modern China at the beginning of the 20th century. He was also regarded as one of the first to create monumental oil paintings with epic Chinese themes – a show of his high proficiency in an essential Western art technique. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Xu Beihong has received more than 193,821 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Xu Beihong is the 1,092nd most popular painter (down from 985th in 2019), the 692nd most popular biography from China (down from 642nd in 2019) and the 28th most popular Chinese Painter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Xu Beihongs by language

Over the past year Xu Beihong has had the most page views in the with 45,279 views, followed by English (19,928), and Russian (2,813). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Spanish (332.39%), Indonesian (73.39%), and Cantonese (71.39%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Xu Beihong ranks 1,092 out of 2,023Before him are François-Hubert Drouais, Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, Carlo Cignani, Antiphilus, Daniel Chodowiecki, and Alexandre Calame. After him are Zhang Daqian, Hans Rottenhammer, Giovanni Battista Crespi, Jeff Wall, Luis Egidio Meléndez, and Vicente Juan Masip.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Xu Beihong ranks 131Before him are Lucian Blaga, Jacques Brugnon, Alfred Neuland, Walter Jackson Freeman II, Fulton J. Sheen, and Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev. After him are Gustav Klutsis, Gregorio Pietro Agagianian, Gustav Lombard, Vsevolod Merkulov, Carl Lutz, and Roza Eskenazi. Among people deceased in 1953, Xu Beihong ranks 82Before him are Dámaso Berenguer, Holger Pedersen, Joseph Jongen, Alexander Vasiliev, Lev Mekhlis, and Ernst Reuter. After him are Jan Czochralski, Titta Ruffo, Nicolae Rădescu, Vsevolod Merkulov, Princess Françoise of Orléans, and Arnold Bax.

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In China

Among people born in China, Xu Beihong ranks 692 out of 1,610Before him are Xin Qiji (1140), Xu Wei (1521), Lu Ji (261), Sogyal Rinpoche (1947), Guo Pu (276), and Tao Hongjing (456). After him are James Tien (1942), Zhang Daqian (1899), Tang Xianzu (1550), Fan Bingbing (1981), Sam Hui (1948), and King Hu (1932).

Among PAINTERS In China

Among painters born in China, Xu Beihong ranks 28Before him are Zhang Zeduan (1085), Huang Tingjian (1045), Li Cheng (919), Li Tang (1050), Wu Zhen (1280), and Xu Wei (1521). After him are Zhang Daqian (1899), Wang Meng (1308), Huang Gongwang (1269), Zhang Xuan (713), Qiu Ying (1494), and Dai Jin (1388).