# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/raphael-soyer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:48:53.343Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/raphael-soyer"
name: "Raphael Soyer"
slug: "raphael-soyer"
description: "Raphael Zalman Soyer was a Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Soyer was referred to as an American scene painter. He is identified as a Social Realist because of his interest in men and women viewed in contemporary settings which included the streets, subways, salons and artists' studios of New York City. He also wrote several books on his life and art."
tagline: "American artist (1899-1987)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Raphael_Soyer_-_Portrait_of_a_Man.jpg/330px-Raphael_Soyer_-_Portrait_of_a_Man.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1899-12-25"
deathDate: "1987-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.5
  momentum:             10.0990099009901
  historical:           7.018756
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Raphael_Soyer"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "رافايل سوير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Soyer"
    title: "Raphael Soyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Soyer"
    title: "Raphael Soyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Soyer"
    title: "Raphael Soyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A8"
    title: "רפאל סויר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B0%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Сойер, Рафаэль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Soyer"
    title: "Raphael Soyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2131415"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump