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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 96,846 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Zdeněk Burian is the 1,104th most popular painter (down from 1,080th in 2019), the 350th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 353rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Czech Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Zdeněk Burian ranks 1,104 out of 2,023. Before him are Vicente Juan Masip, Frans Post, Marie-Denise Villers, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Laurits Tuxen, and Jean Jouvenet. After him are Antonio Tempesta, Caspar Netscher, Johann Baptist Zimmermann, Anthon van Rappard, Carlos Schwabe, and Jaume Huguet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Zdeněk Burian ranks 143. Before him are Clarence Zener, Mohammad Hidayatullah, Sven Rydell, Louis Rosier, Grigori Kozintsev, and Fumiko Enchi. After him are Manuel Ferreira, Tore Keller, Jan Gies, Dmitri Shepilov, Robert Penn Warren, and Michael Powell. Among people deceased in 1981, Zdeněk Burian ranks 99. Before him are Carl Ludwig Siegel, Eraldo Monzeglio, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Mostafa Chamran, Claude Auchinleck, and Jim Davis. After him are Roman Rudenko, Lanza del Vasto, Mariama Bâ, Hermann Esser, Bobby Sands, and Norman Taurog.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Zdeněk Burian ranks 350 out of 1,200. Before him are Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812), František Čáp (1913), Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1641), Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656), Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer (1689), and Svatopluk Pluskal (1930). After him are Franz Krommer (1759), Hedwiga Rosenbaumová (1864), Josef Kadraba (1933), Václav Talich (1883), Sigfried Giedion (1888), and Fritz Mauthner (1849).

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Among PAINTERS In Czechia

Among painters born in Czechia, Zdeněk Burian ranks 11. Before him are Emil Orlík (1870), Karel Škréta (1610), Toyen (1902), Petr Brandl (1668), Anna Chromý (1940), and Gabriel von Max (1840). After him are Georg Flegel (1566), Josef Mánes (1820), Mikoláš Aleš (1852), Joseph von Führich (1800), Václav Brožík (1851), and Alfred Roller (1864).

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