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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 47,698 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Eugen Schüfftan is the 1,330th most popular painter (down from 1,144th in 2019), the 760th most popular biography from Poland (down from 677th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Polish Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Eugen Schüfftan ranks 1,330 out of 1,421. Before him are Hans Baluschek, Ibn al-Bawwab, August Malmström, Tina Blau, Antón Lamazares, and Juliusz Kossak. After him are Graham Sutherland, Alice Pike Barney, Bruno Liljefors, Domenico Morelli, Josef Abel, and Cosmas Damian Asam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Eugen Schüfftan ranks 161. Before him are I. A. Richards, Louise Weiss, Georg Åberg, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Gummo Marx, and Aarre Merikanto. After him are Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Lajos Czeizler, László Hudec, Walter Noddack, Costante Girardengo, and Kathryn Adams. Among people deceased in 1977, Eugen Schüfftan ranks 140. Before him are Neco, Mwambutsa IV of Burundi, Gummo Marx, Konstantin Fedin, Willem Schermerhorn, and Krishan Chander. After him are Jean Duvieusart, Ilia Vekua, Vladimir Tributs, Martí Ventolrà, Leila Hyams, and Rózsa Péter.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Eugen Schüfftan ranks 760 out of 1,454. Before him are Hans Baluschek (1870), Tadeusz Konwicki (1926), Johann Christian Günther (1695), Władysław Grabski (1874), Juliusz Kossak (1824), and Karol Borsuk (1905). After him are Wilhelm Julius Foerster (1832), Hermann Boehm (1884), Włodzimierz Smolarek (1957), Edward Lasker (1885), Henner Henkel (1915), and Nikifor (1895).

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Among PAINTERS In Poland

Among painters born in Poland, Eugen Schüfftan ranks 27. Before him are Max Weber (1881), Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852), Wojciech Gerson (1831), Władysław Podkowiński (1866), Hans Baluschek (1870), and Juliusz Kossak (1824). After him are Nikifor (1895), Józef Chełmoński (1849), Albert Chmielowski (1846), Leon Wyczółkowski (1852), Władysław Ślewiński (1856), and Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk (1884).

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