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Adolphe Appia

1862 - 1928

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Adolphe Appia (1 September 1862 – 29 February 1928) was a Swiss architect and theorist of stage lighting and décor. He was the son of Red Cross co-founder Louis Appia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolphe Appia is the 260th most popular architect (down from 206th in 2019), the 283rd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 218th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Swiss Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Adolphe Appia ranks 260 out of 518. Before him are François de Cuvilliés, José Benito de Churriguera, Elissa Aalto, Gio Ponti, Luciano Laurana, and Yan Liben. After him are Gae Aulenti, Bogdan Bogdanović, Édouard André, Kazuyo Sejima, Josef Frank, and Aldo van Eyck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Adolphe Appia ranks 75. Before him are Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Henri Le Sidaner, Okakura Kakuzō, Carl Charlier, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, and Maurice Emmanuel. After him are Marcel Prévost, Agnes Pockels, Alexander Guchkov, Bajram Curri, João do Canto e Castro, and Eugène Jansson. Among people deceased in 1928, Adolphe Appia ranks 53. Before him are Eglantyne Jebb, Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Narayana Guru, Medardo Rosso, Hannah Chaplin, and Karl Röderer. After him are Gustave Ador, Edward Walter Maunder, Emil Wiechert, Frank Dicksee, Mauritz Stiller, and Robert Lansing.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Adolphe Appia ranks 283 out of 1,015. Before him are Gustave Moynier (1826), Gilberto Agustoni (1922), Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861), Karl Röderer (1868), Alphonse Matejka (1902), and Alexander Schallenberg (1969). After him are Johann Kaspar Bluntschli (1808), Gustave Ador (1845), Hector Hodler (1887), Claude Goretta (1929), Peter Bichsel (1935), and Johann Schneider-Ammann (1952).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Switzerland

Among architects born in Switzerland, Adolphe Appia ranks 13. Before him are Hannes Meyer (1889), Max Bill (1908), Carlo Fontana (1638), Pietro Lombardo (1435), Bernard Tschumi (1944), and Pierre Jeanneret (1896). After him are Domenico Trezzini (1670), Justus Dahinden (1925), Aurelio Galfetti (1936), and James of Saint George (1230).

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