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Erwin Panofsky

1892 - 1968

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Erwin Panofsky (March 30, 1892, in Hannover – March 14, 1968, in Princeton, New Jersey) was a German-Jewish art historian, whose academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime. His work represents a high point in the modern academic study of iconography, including his hugely influential Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art and his masterpiece Early Netherlandish Painting. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erwin Panofsky has received more than 396,849 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Erwin Panofsky is the 43rd most popular historian (down from 37th in 2019), the 506th most popular biography from Germany (down from 413th in 2019) and the 6th 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 43 out of 561. Before him are Jacques Le Goff, Adam of Bremen, Ali ibn al-Athir, Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani, Lucien Febvre, and Samuel von Pufendorf. After him are Euhemerus, François Guizot, Leonardo Bruni, Niketas Choniates, Aby Warburg, and Henri Pirenne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Erwin Panofsky ranks 30. Before him are Stefan Banach, Gregor Strasser, George Paget Thomson, Ernst Lubitsch, William P. Murphy, and Shirō Ishii. After him are Amanullah Khan, Erhard Milch, Arthur Compton, Marina Tsvetaeva, Andrey Yeryomenko, and Robert Ritter von Greim. Among people deceased in 1968, Erwin Panofsky ranks 18. Before him are Trygve Lie, Max Brod, George Gamow, Karl Barth, Salvatore Quasimodo, and Georg von Küchler. After him are Henry Hallett Dale, Enid Blyton, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Corneille Heymans, Jim Clark, and Kees van Dongen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erwin Panofsky ranks 506 out of 7,253. Before him are Maximilian von Weichs (1881), Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1908), Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847), Karl Schwarzschild (1873), and Hans Adolf Krebs (1900). After him are Frank Farian (1941), Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856), Henning von Tresckow (1901), Rabanus Maurus (780), Walter Schellenberg (1910), and Helmut Newton (1920).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Erwin Panofsky ranks 6. Before him are Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717), Leopold von Ranke (1795), Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779), Adam of Bremen (1100), and Samuel von Pufendorf (1632). After him are Aby Warburg (1866), Julius Wellhausen (1844), Erich Auerbach (1892), Hermann Alexander Diels (1848), Christoph Cellarius (1638), and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876).

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