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Eugen Schüfftan

1893 - 1977

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Eugen Schüfftan (21 July 1893, in Breslau, Silesia, Germany, now Wroclaw, Poland – 6 September 1977, in New York City) was a German cinematographer. He invented the Schüfftan process, a special effects technique that employed mirrors to insert actors into miniature sets. One of the early uses of the process was for Metropolis (1927), directed by Fritz Lang. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugen Schüfftan has received more than 50,900 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Eugen Schüfftan is the 1,486th most popular painter (down from 1,329th in 2019), the 819th most popular biography from Poland (down from 760th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Polish Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Eugen Schüfftan ranks 1,486 out of 2,023. Before him are Carl-Henning Pedersen, Domenico di Bartolo, Martinus Rørbye, Albert Namatjira, Christian Albrecht Jensen, and Ivan Marchuk. After him are Luc-Olivier Merson, Vadym Meller, Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Suzanne Manet, Thomas Girtin, and Alla Horska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Eugen Schüfftan ranks 172. Before him are Fay Bainter, Costante Girardengo, Elisaveta Bagriana, Kathryn Adams, Ramón Encinas, and James B. Conant. After him are Blind Lemon Jefferson, László Hudec, Aleksandr Gauk, Oskari Friman, Willy Böckl, and Ralph Linton. Among people deceased in 1977, Eugen Schüfftan ranks 142. Before him are Azucena Villaflor, Alice Paul, Alexander Volkov, Nicolae Kovács, Siegfried Buback, and Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira. After him are Eugen Wüster, Ilia Vekua, Pascual Pérez, Rózsa Péter, Gustave Gilbert, and Jean Hagen.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Eugen Schüfftan ranks 819 out of 1,694. Before him are Wojciech Korfanty (1873), Chava Alberstein (1946), Jadwiga Piłsudska (1920), Hermann Boehm (1884), Alfred Saalwächter (1883), and Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg (1761). After him are Grigory Levenfish (1889), Rainer Barzel (1924), Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768), Fritz Laband (1925), Helena Pilejczyk (1931), and Alina Szapocznikow (1926).

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Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Eugen Schüfftan ranks 31. Before him are Juliusz Kossak (1824), Max Weber (1881), Józef Mehoffer (1869), Józef Chełmoński (1849), Leon Wyczółkowski (1852), and Nikifor (1895). After him are Hans Baluschek (1870), Albert Chmielowski (1846), Władysław Ślewiński (1856), Szymon Czechowicz (1689), Julius Hübner (1806), and Mordecai Ardon (1896).

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