PAINTER

Zdzisław Beksiński

1929 - 2005

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Zdzisław Beksiński (pronounced [ˈzd͡ʑiswaf bɛkˈɕiɲskʲi]; 24 February 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor specializing in the field of dystopian surrealism. Beksiński made his paintings and drawings in what he called either a Baroque or a Gothic manner. His creations were made mainly in two periods. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zdzisław Beksiński has received more than 2,615,279 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Zdzisław Beksiński is the 198th most popular painter (up from 205th in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from Poland (up from 109th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Painter.

Zdzisław Beksiński is most famous for his surrealist paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Zdzisław Beksiński ranks 198 out of 2,023. Before him are Giulio Romano, Lucas Cranach the Younger, Utamaro, Pieter de Hooch, Pietro da Cortona, and Henry Fuseli. After him are Pisanello, Quentin Matsys, Francesco Guardi, Gerhard Richter, Raoul Dufy, and Aristide Maillol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Zdzisław Beksiński ranks 37. Before him are Isamu Akasaki, Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Rudolf Mössbauer, Lata Mangeshkar, Chet Baker, and Hafizullah Amin. After him are Babrak Karmal, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lennart Meri, Graham Hill, Richard E. Taylor, and Bruno Cremer. Among people deceased in 2005, Zdzisław Beksiński ranks 19. Before him are Simon Wiesenthal, Rafic Hariri, Omar Sívori, Ezer Weizman, Kenzō Tange, and Zhao Ziyang. After him are Jack Kilby, Joseph Rotblat, Aslan Maskhadov, Sister Lúcia, Saul Bellow, and James Callaghan.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Zdzisław Beksiński ranks 108 out of 1,694. Before him are Pola Negri (1897), Jan Matejko (1838), Mieszko I of Poland (940), Maria Feodorovna (1759), Leopold Kronecker (1823), and Hanna Reitsch (1912). After him are Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Alexander Jagiellon (1461), Fred Zinnemann (1907), Jarosław Kaczyński (1949), Władysław Reymont (1867), and Osip Mandelstam (1891).

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Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Zdzisław Beksiński ranks 3. Before him are Tamara de Lempicka (1898), and Jan Matejko (1838). After him are Aleksandra Ekster (1882), Moïse Kisling (1891), Otto Mueller (1874), Tadeusz Kantor (1915), Hans Bellmer (1902), Jacek Malczewski (1854), Olga Boznańska (1865), Aleksander Orłowski (1777), and Józef Brandt (1841).

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