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Pratuang Emjaroen

Thai artist (1935–2022)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ43129968 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pratuang Emjaroen (Thai: ประเทือง เอมเจริญ, October 9, 1935 – March 7, 2022) was a Thai artist.

Biography

Born in 1935, Pratuang started his career as a self-taught artist in the 1970s. In the beginning, he worked as a painter for billboards and movie posters of cinema industry.

In 1971, he founded Dhamma Group.

Editorial summary

“Pratuang Emjaroen” enters the record as thai artist (1935–2022). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pratuang, Emjaroen and Thai can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1935, 2022, 1971—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1935-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pratuang, Emjaroen and Thai.
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Why this record matters

“Pratuang Emjaroen” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pratuang, Emjaroen and Thai provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q43129968. VIAF identifies the subject as 43995573. The Library of Congress control number is no2003102899. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1935, 2022 and 1971.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pratuang Emjaroen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.