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Zdeněk Burian

1905 - 1981

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Zdeněk Michael František Burian (11 February 1905 – 1 July 1981) was a Czech painter, book illustrator and palaeoartist. Burian's artwork played a central role in the development of palaeontological reconstruction and he is regarded as one of the most influential palaeoartists of all time. Burian began his career as an illustrator in the 1920s and became famous in his native Czechoslovakia for his illustrations of novels, mainly adventure novels and classic works. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zdeněk Burian has received more than 90,241 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Zdeněk Burian is the 1,081st most popular painter (down from 1,027th in 2019), the 353rd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 326th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Czech Painter.

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  • 16

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  • 5.14

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  • 1.92

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Zdeněk Burian ranks 1,081 out of 1,421. Before him are Zacharie Astruc, Huang Gongwang, Jean Carzou, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Giampietrino, and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. After him are Eugène Jansson, Yehuda Pen, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Aleksander Orłowski, Jean-Baptiste Debret, and Eugène Isabey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Zdeněk Burian ranks 141. Before him are Preguinho, László Benedek, Dmitri Shepilov, Tore Keller, Franz König, and Anfilogino Guarisi. After him are István Avar, Grigori Kozintsev, Henry Koster, Osvaldo Pugliese, Alexandre Villaplane, and Manès Sperber. Among people deceased in 1981, Zdeněk Burian ranks 101. Before him are Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Jean Eustache, Mariama Bâ, Robert Montgomery, Walter Heitler, and Roman Rudenko. After him are Norman Taurog, Marcel Bezençon, Mostafa Chamran, Boris Polevoy, Ivan Eklind, and Lydia Lopokova.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Zdeněk Burian ranks 353 out of 973. Before him are Václav Tomášek (1774), Jan Kalivoda (1801), Alfred Neubauer (1891), Svatopluk Pluskal (1930), Lubor Niederle (1865), and Franz von Soxhlet (1848). After him are Václav Talich (1883), Ladislav Adamec (1926), Simon Sechter (1788), Rudolf Beran (1887), Moritz von Auffenberg (1852), and Luděk Pachman (1924).

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Among PAINTERS In Czechia

Among painters born in Czechia, Zdeněk Burian ranks 9. Before him are František Kupka (1871), Wenceslaus Hollar (1607), Toyen (1902), Anna Chromý (1940), Gabriel von Max (1840), and Emil Orlík (1870). After him are Mikoláš Aleš (1852), Max Švabinský (1873), Petr Brandl (1668), Václav Brožík (1851), Bohumil Kubišta (1884), and Oldřich Lajsek (1925).

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