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Erwin Panofsky

1892 - 1968

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Erwin Panofsky (March 30, 1892 – March 14, 1968) was a German-Jewish art historian whose work represents a high point in the modern academic study of iconography, including his hugely influential Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art and his seminal Early Netherlandish Painting. Panofsky's ideas were highly influential in intellectual history in general, particularly in his use of historical ideas to interpret artworks and vice versa. Many of his books are still in print, including Studies in Iconology: Humanist Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (1939), Meaning in the Visual Arts (1955), and his 1943 study The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer. His academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erwin Panofsky is the 44th most popular historian (down from 43rd in 2019), the 504th most popular biography from Germany (up from 506th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Historian.

Erwin Panofsky is most famous for his work in the field of art history. He was a German-born American art historian and an expert on medieval and Renaissance art.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Erwin Panofsky ranks 44 out of 561. Before him are Quintus Curtius Rufus, Leonardo Bruni, Jacques Le Goff, Adam of Bremen, Ali ibn al-Athir, and Marcus Velleius Paterculus. After him are Al-Baladhuri, Socrates of Constantinople, Lucien Febvre, François Guizot, Yuval Noah Harari, and Samuel von Pufendorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Erwin Panofsky ranks 30. Before him are George Paget Thomson, Jack L. Warner, Mátyás Rákosi, William P. Murphy, Stefan Banach, and Gregor Strasser. After him are Darius Milhaud, Corneille Heymans, Arthur Friedenreich, J. Paul Getty, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Shirō Ishii. Among people deceased in 1968, Erwin Panofsky ranks 19. Before him are Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert F. Kennedy, George Gamow, Trygve Lie, Karl Barth, and Georg von Küchler. After him are Enid Blyton, Corneille Heymans, Salvatore Quasimodo, Jim Clark, Carl Theodor Dreyer, and Kees van Dongen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erwin Panofsky ranks 504 out of 7,253. Before him are John William Friso, Prince of Orange (1687), Rudolf Dassler (1898), Gerhard Richter (1932), Dieter Bohlen (1954), Georg von Küchler (1881), and Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria (1843). After him are Heinrich Brüning (1885), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), Johannes Rau (1931), Hans von Aachen (1552), Adam Weishaupt (1748), and Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1817).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Erwin Panofsky ranks 5. Before him are Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717), Leopold von Ranke (1795), Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779), and Adam of Bremen (1100). After him are Samuel von Pufendorf (1632), Aby Warburg (1866), Julius Wellhausen (1844), Erich Auerbach (1892), Hermann Alexander Diels (1848), Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876), and Christoph Cellarius (1638).

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