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Heinrich Wölfflin

1864 - 1945

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Heinrich Wölfflin (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈvœlflɪn]; 21 June 1864 – 19 July 1945) was a Swiss art historian, esthetician and educator, whose objective classifying principles ("painterly" vs. "linear" and the like) were influential in the development of formal analysis in art history in the early 20th century. He taught at Basel, Berlin and Munich in the generation that saw German art history's rise to pre-eminence. His three most important books, still consulted, are Renaissance und Barock (1888), Die Klassische Kunst (1898, "Classic Art"), and Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe (1915, "Principles of Art History"). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Wölfflin is the 62nd most popular historian (up from 66th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 83rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Historian.

Heinrich Wölfflin is most famous for his work on the Renaissance and Baroque periods of art. He is credited with the idea of "artistic progress."

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Heinrich Wölfflin ranks 62 out of 561. Before him are Justin, Francesco Guicciardini, Euhemerus, Ernst Gombrich, Johann Gustav Droysen, and John Skylitzes. After him are Tzvetan Todorov, Jared Diamond, Libanius, Movses Khorenatsi, Callisthenes, and Benzion Netanyahu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Heinrich Wölfflin ranks 21. Before him are Miguel de Unamuno, Frances Cleveland, Charles Cooley, Yun Chi-ho, Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach, and Alexej von Jawlensky. After him are Vilhelm Hammershøi, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Paul Sérusier, John Jacob Astor IV, Jules Renard, and Eugen d'Albert. Among people deceased in 1945, Heinrich Wölfflin ranks 59. Before him are Franz Werfel, Robert H. Goddard, Karl-Otto Koch, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, and Oskar Dirlewanger. After him are Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Ludwig Stumpfegger, Vladimir Vernadsky, Pavlo Skoropadskyi, Felix Salten, and Arthur Nebe.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Heinrich Wölfflin ranks 76 out of 1,015. Before him are Alexandre Yersin (1863), Siegfried Wagner (1869), Alejo Carpentier (1904), Domenico Fontana (1543), Clay Regazzoni (1939), and Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740). After him are Peter Zumthor (1943), Félix Vallotton (1865), Roger Federer (1981), Niklaus Wirth (1934), Mario Botta (1943), and H. R. Giger (1940).

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Among HISTORIANS In Switzerland

Among historians born in Switzerland, Heinrich Wölfflin ranks 2. Before him are Jacob Burckhardt (1818). After him are Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815), and Florian Cajori (1859).

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